I'm running the nightly development build from 2011-02-21.
I might be misunderstanding what is supposed to happen, but when I login using the login form on the front page of my installation, it still shows the login form instead of the logout option.
I've tried it with my admin account and another user account but it's the same thing.
The login has worked, because if I then go to the admin panel I have access, but it seems that the user side of the website doesn't detect it?
Is that supposed to happen?
For the logout problem try clicking on [i]apply[/i] on the plugins page. But before you do that, please look in your database--options table and find any options for which the name resembles zp_plugin_user_login-out and report back the contents of the records.
As to the registry, there should have been a logon form, but I suspect the first issue prohibited that from showing.