Tnx very much for your answer, that has cleared up several things for me in one go
yer awsome!
So... there's an auth system right in there? I think I must have been reading too fast when I started digging into this system.
I wonder if there is any reading material on the subject of user signup / authentication in codex that someone knows of? I will of course keep looking about for it myself, but if anyone has a link to such a thing, I sure would be grateful