For whatever reason, I can’t seem to get the REGISTER links to appear in the sidebar for the blog. The CODE is there, they just aren’t showing up for some reason. Since this was an integration of WordPress into Joomla CMS, I suspect it might be tied to Joomla’s ability to allow people to register for the site as a whole. I will investigate that later I guess.
Apparently, the module I used to make this happen is no longer being supported by the developer. 
It appears that the only way I am going to get full blog functionality the way I wanted is to separate it from the site, rather than have it integrated. I am concerned this will make traffic to the actual site suffer….what do you guys think? Certainly, I can cross link between the two, I don’t know….
