pbwiki is now confusing for new users

A colleague led a workshop for faculty at the community college where I work on using pbwikis and it turned out to be very frustrating because of the login issues ( I was the one that encouraged him to do it with pbwiki, having used it in the past w/o any major problems.) It's really unfortunate that the peanut butter sandwich is not living up to its simplicity model!

As another poster asked above, when is the new release coming out?

Then, when I tried to sign up to follow this thread, each time I had to scroll down to type into the field under the image with the wavy letters to prove I'm human (!!), the popup disappeared! I gave up after try #3. FYI I use Firefox; but I'll if you'll let me post this with IE7 since it doesn't function with Firefox.

What's happening over there?