I managed to change the password one more time after posting the thread, so all is fine in that sense. I dunno tho if I would've been able to complete my registration if I hadn't happened to copy paste the hash. Has there been any new joiners lately?

when I was trying to register, the page where you enter your password didn't accept anything I tried... except when I happened to copypaste the registration hex string from address bar. so that became my password. then I tried to change passwords after logging in and it complained about the password...