Thanks for the responses, It is a professional association, so they are essentially members for life, 2800 of them, so punching it in by hand is a little out of the question also when there is a new member then it is put in by hand.
andyMac you are corect the username is really not relevent. Thier passwords are their membership numbers.
I have tried converting some f the sctipts I have found on hotscripts, but seem to have probelms, they see the data base, but keep coming up with userbame/password not correct.
To let you know I am not a php coder, but you probably fgured that out.