I signed up with in a day or so of Meng's post here on the Cakewalk forums - pretty much right after I read his post.
I'll be John Sandlin there, rather than SandlinJohn. I don't remember now why my user name ended up all backward. Possibly I used to have a different account under a different email address (that probably no longer existed when I rejoined during the beginning of the Platinum era). I would probably have had registered when I purchased Cakewalk Express v 8 directly from Cakewalk in 2000.