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This is my second post on SO, as well as my second post on Django--please be gentle. I am working on a simple User model. Users should be able to sign up for the site, and after signing up they should be able to change their account settings upon login. However, if I do the following, Users see a huge form with all kinds of info I don't want them to edit: views.py from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, get_object_or_404 from django.core import urlresolvers from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect from django.template import RequestContext from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserChangeForm @login_required def settings( request, template_name = 'accounts/settings.html' ): """ Processes requests for the settings page, where users can edit their profiles. """ page_title = 'Account Settings' if request.method == 'POST': postdata = request.POST.copy() form = UserChangeForm( postdata ) if form.is_valid(): form.save() else: form = UserChangeForm() title = 'Settings' return render_to_response( template_name, locals(), context_instance = RequestContext( request) ) As if that wasn't bad enough, this form doesn't allow any changes to be made, citing "User with this Username already exists" as an error. This confuses me--I am attempting to save a UserChangeForm, so wouldn't it already existing be a given? I've been looking online for a while now, attempting making my own custom forms, based on other questions I've seen on SO, like so: forms.py class CustomUserChangeForm( UserChangeForm ): def __init__( self, *args, **kwargs ): super( CustomUserChangeForm, self ).__init__( *args, **kwargs ) if self.instance and self.

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