wait a minute, if that's true, why couldn't I register an account later with that user name?
unlike DJY I did not do a search or anything (just going by what you said). Maybe between the day registration started and the day you registered this account, you or someone else registered that other one?
Like I said above
If you look at your "CJ O'Neill" posts (assuming they were all before May 2001) you would see classic post