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Online event registration form doesn’t work at all. When I call it from front-end of Joomla it’s reporting: “Sorry. A non-recoverable error has occurred.
You cannot register for this event currently”.
I’m using it as not paid event and no Payment Processor is involved.
What am I doing wrong??

Yes, it was stupid mistake. The event start registration was in January 2008.
This is actually confusing question of usability.
The message “non-recoverable error has occurred” and yellow screen look like serious system message following with chock-like reaction.
I can imagine, if this message coming up to ordinary members. They will believe that our site was completely crashed.
It could be nice to have customizable error processing or distinguish the errors visible to administrative stuff and the errors visible to innocent members. 
Some other usability elements could be also improved by formatting. F. ex. if you left empty some required fields in a form the warning messages have the same gray color as surrounded ordinary text. It is especially hard to read for people with eyesight disorders as our members are (