Should be working now guys, sorry for any inconvenience.

When a new user joins the forum, they need to post first and then once moderated/approved the forum software auto-magically promotes their account and moves it into a new account group with everyone else (restrictions lifted).

The magic only happens when that task is processed by the software, its all back-end stuff and the software has many task's to do, its just a matter of the task list cycling through.