Trouble with user registration with Simple:Press

Hey everyone,

I’m using the Simple:Press plugin to set up my site’s forum. I’ve been testing it out with friends, and they’ve been getting confused with registering. I think they get confused once they log in with the PW that is sent to them in an email – they are brought to a page that lets them change their password (and after that it shows our site’s WP dashboard) and that’s what throws them off. They don’t necessarily know how to use WP and don’t know how to click back into the forum. I don’t want to deter people from posting by things getting complicated. I’d like to do one of the following:

1) Figure out a way to tweak Simple:press, so when a user logs in for the FIRST time using their assigned PW, they are brought right to the forum topic/post they wanted to contribute to.

2) – Use a plugin to let them pick their own password
– Disable the registration email that assigns them a password (when I use plugins that let users pick their own passwords, they still get that email that assigns a password, making the plugin obsolete.)
– Have them directed directly to the forum topic/post upon login.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks!