Ok, let's take the easy one first. The unknown column sounds like you are running off of a pre 5.1.2 database. Are you pointing this at your PERL database? If so, then you need to grab the latest PERL version and run the altertable script to update the database to the proper format.
As for the adduser problem, I'll get that one figured out here shortly.
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