newsletter registration required on sign up form

[peggy king]

I've recently (i think) developed a problem where a customer can't sign up with out ticking the "newsletter registration" box. I've tried registering as a new customers and it won't let me unless I select this box on the registration form. This, as well as the "enable opt-in" tick box are turned off in my settings, but still showing on the create account page. I'm afraid this the requirement that new customers register for my newsletter may be discouraging potential customers from creating an account.  Anyone know how to fix this?  I do not know HTML. Using version 1.6.1.18

[NemoPS]

look for "%NEWSLETTER%" in the ps_configuration table in the database, see if there is a duplicate (same for %OPTIN%)