Since upgrading to 1.3 I am unable to log in to the standard Mambo admin function.  The username/password are consistently rejected.  Looking in the database, the password is exactly what I thought it was, but the login fails all the same.  Is there a simple way out of this problem?

I'm using version 1.2 - I don't want to use a beta version unless there is actually a fault in the latest proper release.  The situation seems to have changed since the installation was first completed.  Does the synchronisation happen in response to a timer, or something like that?  I am seeing different things now, even though I haven't changed anything.  What is going on here?

How does it do that?  All I can see happening is that the SMF login has replaced the Mambo login and SMF is working as if it were a Mambo component.  That is fine if all you want is a forum and a bit of static content.

But when users are logged in, all the standard Mambo components such as CONTENT think that the user is NOT logged in - so they cannot do things like submit news or weblinks.

Have I done something wrong, or is this how it works?  Are there ways to integrate the standard components?

I'm not clear what to expect.  The integration doesn't seem to actually integrate a great deal.  The standard components, such as the menus, appear to be oblivious to the SMF login and behave as if there is no user logged in. 

How much of this can be quickly and easily dealt with?  Where can I find information?

I followed all the installation instructions, and the admin for the SMF integration component says it is all OK.  In SMF, there is only one user - the admin that I set up when SMF was installed.

What I was  imagining would happen was that SMF would be populated with my existing Mambo user base.  Was that a wrong expectation?  Does using SMF integration mean that user registration has to be done all over again?