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I'd like to chime in on this discussion. 
Being an avid user of the Wordpress blog software, dealing with comment spam is one of the pitfalls of having a blog in general (I think you all will agree with me on that)..  there's a neat plugin called Akismet.   It's very similar in nature to the MT Blacklist plugin for Movable Type, if any of you have experience with it.

What I'm getting at is this..  Akismet is GPL'd software. Since the few months of it's release it already has a full API surrounding it as well as many different incarnations created by the community. (ie, PHP5 class, Python library, etc). It's even gone as far as being ported to different Blog software.

Although I'm not really certain how much spam posts pose a problem...as I've never had to deal with them.. this may very well be something to take a look at.

Download it, poke around the source code, see how you could possibly implement it into a plugin?

Just my .02   

note: I do not endorse the preceeding, nor can be held accountable for what has been said

That seems to have fixed the issue.  Thanks.

But there is still the issue of why the register dates change when I change the server timezone information.
From my knowledge, the timezone setting just changes the internal time/date settings for user posts that may happen to be in different time zones... so They see the correct times and stuff.

I just don't understand how that can affect the displaying information incorrectly.

Also.. since I now have my installation set to "0 GMT",  I do believe that perhaps the caption for this particular setting needs to be modified as to not confused users.

To me this means I find where the servers are located, in my case.. Utah (-7 MST), and set accordingly.
Then users change their timezone according to where they are located.

Actually, i have no idea.  I assume it is correct because I'm also running a phpBB forum(on the same server) with a tons of members for a WoW Guild and do _NOT_ have any problems at all with register dates.

Just for reference as well.. this is not locally hosted. It's hosted on http://bluehost.com -- I did email them after recently having this problem and their in Mountain Standard Time(-7). 

I have noticed though that when users register they seem to not change their own time zone setting (most of the users are EST(-5), could that be the problem?

And lastly, while registering test users to see if i could reproduce the errors.. I think I may have found a bug.
While either logged out, or logged in as a regular user (not admin), my register dates display correctly. 
But if I log in as Admin it gets screwy.

Example.  I created a test board yesterday, so obviously the register date for my admin account would state "yesterday".. but if I'm logged in as Admin it says I registered "Today".
When I log out and go to view the user list page, it says I registered on the correct date ("Yesterday")

And more further testing reveals.. that even while logged in on the test user i just created.. changing the Time Zone setting from -7 MST, to -5 EST makes the admin user screwy again.  Instead of it displaying correctly while logged in non-admin, it now displays the admin registed "today", which is obviously not true.  Because I registered that account last night.. which is technically "yesterday".

Hope this helps at all.  And I hope you can fix the error.
Just for good measure though, how can I go about seeing if my server time is set correct?

yes, i did. it didn't help at all.