Russ, You may find this hard to believe, but we do have some members (even merchants) that do not have the best interests of Renderosity at heart. Renderosity has an open door policy to merchants who want to sell in our marketplace, but to access our private merchant forum requires consent to a set of guidelines that ensure productive use of that forum. Some merchants have chosen not to agree to these guidelines since it does prevent competitive activity, and thus are not allowed in our private merchant forum. We do flag the member records for those merchants to block forum access and that is the "mysterious" code which has troubled you. Hope this helps, Tim