I wasn’t able to ever get the Role Manager to do what I wanted. My situation sounds a lot like rabmaster’s, in that I wanted people to be able to submit posts, but I didn’t want them to be able to see any of the information that only admins should be seeing. Then, after literally weeks of searching, I ran across TDO Mini Forms which is exactly 100% what I needed. It tracks submissions, permits uploads, and if you want, you can set it to auto trust someone after they’ve had X amount of posts approved.
