Sure, I'm a team player....  I was merely posting in a forum I had already posted remarks in and hoping to provide input as to the progress of the work done on 1.3.1 -  I'll be more careful in the future, honest!

oooooh!.. So close, but still no banana...
  I just installed the 1.3.1 files, first without the SMF login, then with...  The results (ouch!).
  First of all, it looked good, went in well and I can see there's been improvement in the logging in.  I am staying in the side (mambo/vb) that I do the login on (this is good), even though I make a brief visit to the SMF side (complete with an error I will describe below) before shooting back to the Mambo side..   This is "without" the SMF login module....
   Logging off on the Forum side still gives me a "unable to load the 'main' template", and "stack overflow at line:144" errors, but I am logged off, and thats a good thing. (oh, after clicking the Ok on the MS error)
   Logging on the Forum side did NOT log me on the Mambo side however... (boo!)

-  Installed the SMF login 1.3.1
   Fairly nearly the same events as described above, with the addition of when I log in on the forum side, there is a "logout" box on the Mambo side, but I'm really not logged in properly (ie.. no admin menu items, edit features on frontpage etc.. ) -  If I click the logout on the Mambo side, I'm shot to the SMF side and there's a box saying, "Verification error, try again.. etc.. , that sort of thing"  But I AM logged out of both sides and do return to the Mambo side..

    Logging in on the Mambo side with or without the SMF login module gives me a brief visit to the SMF side with an error in red, that an error has occured (I see a box with my name, but no password, and a 60) - then I shoot back to the Mambo side.. Logged in on both sides as I should be.
    Logging out on the Mambo side gives the "unable to....  Stack overflow, error I described before"

     Installing, I still had to manually edit the config file to get the install to finish (had to manually enter the absolute address thing) - I noticed that the Mambo prefix (that used to be grey) is gone.. thats a good thing I suppose, and it shows work has been done..

     In short though, "close" but not quite smooth....  I do now stay in the side I logged in on... and thats a good thing... But I sure don't want users to see errors... arrrrgh!

I'm always seeing two admins logged in on the Mambo control panel, sometimes three, once even four! - I take it to be the way I log on to my site, first logging on the main page (so I can see the administrator tab) and then Mambo makes me log in again...  (totally unrelated to the SMF login) 
If I just blast in to Admin via "http://mysite.com/administrator" I'm NOT logged on the site, nor SMF, but I am in the Admin CP and only show ONE admin logged in.   Now, if I preview the site, and log-on from there...  Viola!   I have two admins logged in... "Clicking the X beside one of them logs the extra out, leaving one by the way".  but I am on logged in on Mambo and SMF (even if the business is kinda rough right now)...

  So, it sounds as if your Mambo to SMF connection isn't working somehow, there may be clues  on the configuration screen.   Is it all green?

Alex,
  Thank you for asking, "No" errors on the right hand side of the screen, but some pretty cool update feeds and announcements from Mambohacks (which I appreciate greately) - if you don't see those, perhaps the links back to Mambohacks aren't proper.

   I'd like to toss in again here that I sure would like to "stay on the side" I'm loggin onto without the brief hop in and out of the other.   So, if possible when I'm "not" logged in and enter the forum I would like to see a login (of course) but once I log-in there, I'd like to stay there.. Right now it bounces me back to the Mambo side.
   When I'm on the Mambo side and logout I'd just like to logout, not briefly visit the SMF side (where I'm seeing a verification message now).

    All of this, and a bucket of chicken would be nice....  (chuckle)

I'm wondering if that might help me also.    The mambo-smf login is working but not too smoothly.  The logout is doing some wierd things too.
Here I describe what is happening:

Logging out on the forums side I get a message,
  An error has occurred!
  Unable to load 'main' template
  MS IE error, Stack overflow at line: 144  - But I'm logged out ok...

Logging in on the Mambo side, I briefly see a login box
on the Forum side (complete with forum header) that has
My name and 60 as the time, but the password box is blank,
and red letters across the top of the box that says,
"An error has occurred"
and I'm shot back to the mambo side, but the login worked.

Logging out on the mambo side. I see the the forum side with an error message:
Logout, "Session verification failed, please try logging out and back in again, then try again.

And then I'm shot back to the mambo side, but the logout took.

- I'm not getting any PHP or java errors, just those created as I described - otherwise the module and forum is working "a-ok" -  I haven't changed any Admin settings regarding login on either side (mambo or SMF) so, if anyone can think of any I could make, please pass them along.

  Great forum, excellent integration!    Thank you!  Ed

additionally, I see now where, "when I log-in" on the mambo side, I briefly see the SMF and then flash back to the mambo.... Yuck! - That kind of action should take place in a Mambo wrapper or not be seen at all I think.

I think it better that "if you log-on" on one system (Mambo or SMF) that you stay (or return) to that system once the login is done.  Same goes for log-off.   However, I would like to ask here if there is a link back from the SMF to the mambo if a body choses to go back.

  That was all it took! - Thank you for helping solve the problem.   I don't know why the installer wouldn't change the config file...   When I manually edited the file as you suggested, the rest of the program snapped into place and the whole SMF package worked perfectly.

  The instructions and installation of the SMF-Mambo routines are perfect, aside from that glitch with the SMF absolute location, I had no problems.

  Thank you again,  Ed

Yes,
   All directories and files are writeable (I used the site control panel and checked).  I have the SMF files loaded in a directory off the mamboroot directory and it is called "forum"  but when I put "forum" in place of the < stuff> in the absolute location, the letters at the end never change from red.. Incorrect Path.

   Also, the checklist tells me that package hasn't been installed.. but it has, twice!..
                      A suggestion on where to go from here?

Yes, all four are writeable (green)

The checklist shows "installed"
    "not installed"
    "done"
    "[verify] done"    for those selections.

When I type in "forum" in place of the <SMF path here> the red, "Incorrect path" never changes.

I am receiving the same errors, but even before that when I'm trying to change the Absolute path to the SMF files, it keeps defaulting back to the <SMF path here> in that block, and though I've installed (with packager) twice the red "not installed" next to Install SMFMamboMod.zip  will not go away.
   The login box then looks like the errors he described before.

   Its probably some simple step I forgot to check.. any clues?