It's likely not inheriting from prosilver so pretty much expected that it looks like that. What style is it? Just a matter of creating the template files for it.
Turns out the email for the contact form was not set up in the domain's config. I've corrected that now. If you want to send me the details again please do so. I do have availability.
So that's probably because they've been able to get through the initial registration, but can't get past the extra CAPTCHA that presents itself when they try to post: https://github.com/DavidIQ/captchaplus
You must be referring to what we do on phpbb.com. I guess the reason for that is because we encourage users to subscribe to that forum and user replies would trigger unneeded notifications. Obviously don't need that here
I think the default restrictions for the NRU group are pretty solid as a whole. The Moderation Queue is not used by default though so if you want to control what those users are able to post and you're OK with having to approve new posts for users in that group you'll need to change that group's for...