What the hell is wrong with Yahoo groups?

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I've just tried to join my local freecycle group - to do this I first had to join yahoo groups. I've received my user name and password and tried to log in and join. All well and good, except that I can't actually access Messages etc. - I'm still being prompted to log in.

When I try to log in, I'm told I can't, the user name or password or something is wrong, at Yahoo groups and at freecycle. Remember that I'm pasting in the information they sent me about two minutes ago...

When I tried to do a password recovery it told me I couldn't do that on line.

When I tried for a lost user name it asked me for personal details which I haven't yet given them.

So how the hell do I get the damn thing to work?

Is it browser incompatibility or something?