Trying & failing to implement Change Password

I am trying to implement a Change Password system for web users. I don’t want to complicate it with masses of user profile stuff on which the change-password function appears. I want only a form on which a user can insert (& confirm) the new password.

I have looked at the Scotty Delicious demo and read the WebloginPE documention but am finding it hard to translate this into code I can use (docs could provide more examples perhaps?)

My attempt so far:

I created a dedicated Change Password page with the following:
[!WebLoginPE? &type=`profile`!]

This correctly populates the profile form of the currently logged in user (I would hope later to remove unwanted functionality, though don’t know how)
If I change any of the profile fields except the password, these are correctly saved.
If I change the password, then logout, the new password is not recognised so obviously hasn’t been saved. How can this be? Is the password more complex to alter than (say) date of birth?

Is the above piece of code enough?
or should some other templates/chunks need to be set up ?
or is WebloginPE perhaps the wrong snippet for my needs?
I almost feel as if I am I might be missing something obvious.

I can see there is lots of discussions on password problems and fixes etc which I have found too complicated to follow. It all seems to be very advanced - if I could understand it, I perhaps wouldn’t need to ask questions.

Sorry about this tale of woe - can anyone help me?

Once again, I’m answering my own post.

I have discovered that the original simple Weblogin snippet does what I need, & thanks to Sottwell’s demonstration site, I found a changepassword snippet that is required to implement the change password function. Works with no fuss.

So I was lured into trying WebloginPE because it seemed so capable yet in the end it wasincomprehensible, whereas it looks like the older Weblogin snippet does everything I want (at least for the time being)

I’m with you on that one!
I tried and failed to get the PE version working correctly.
As soon as I went back to the original everything was fine.
If you don’t need profiles etc. then the old version is fine.