Sounds good. Hopefully the headline limiter is a simple HTML attribute fix, but the country to state/province switch sounds more like PHP/database work.

Good luck!

Yellowrose - I understand all of it from a usability perspective, these just seem like clear technical issues :). E.g. The example given for the headline wouldn't even fit into the form field.

... something that needs a balance of both rationality and emotion in order for it to exist permanently.

I noticed two problems in the sign up process.

First, when starting on the very first page with just a few pieces of information, I selected "Canada" as my country - but when I got to the second page of registration for more details, only States were available - no provinces. I had to continue on and then edit my profile to get a province listed.

The second problem is that on that second registration page the "Headline" field is auto-limited to only about 30 characters - not nearly enough to put in an actual sentence. I had to change this afterward as well by editing my profile.

These errors exist in FireFox, IE8, and Chrome.