Seems my problem is deeper than I thought after all

That little change of code only affects the link from the login sidebox but there seems to be a global redirect that throws me to the login page even if I manually put in the browser URL box

http://.....store/index.php?main_page=create_account

I cleared the cache it doesn't help!

Its hard coded somewhere this zen_redirect.

I searched on the toolkit and experimented changing some redirect statements from FILENAME_LOGIN to FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT but none of it works it INSISTS on taking me to the login page where CAPTCHA doesnt work.

Ive looked at the CAPTCHA files I don't know if I can override this behaviour from there...

Please anyone involved in zen cart development would you kindly tell me where in the files is this redirect so I can cancel it.

All my tpl_create_account files everything is correct