Users unable to log on - passwords do not work
 

The facts:

Hardly anyone is showing up on my visited today box. I believe that they just can't log on.

I have several fake accounts that I use to post in the forums. I tried to log on with those accounts and I keep getting the invalid username/password error.

After two attempts to log on I also see the you have used up all 5 of your log on attempts error and it instructs me to wait 15 minutes before trying again.

I disabled the setting that only allowed people to log on 5 times. I still can not log on to the forums with a regular member account.

I changed the passwords for those regular member accounts from the Admin panel. That didn't work.

Any ideas?