diff --git a/template.php b/template.php
index 0c4684f..51f745d 100644
--- a/template.php
+++ b/template.php
@@ -474,4 +474,11 @@ function phptemplate_button($element) {
   } 
   // We here wrap the output with a couple span tags 
   return '<span class="button"><input type="submit" '. (empty($element['#name']) ? '' : 'name="'. $element['#name'] .'" ') .'id="'. $element['#id'].'" value="'. check_plain($element['#value']) .'" '. drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']) ." /></span>\n"; 
+}
+
+/**
+ * Theme override of theme_username(), removing '(not verified)'.
+ */
+function phptemplate_username($object) {
+  return str_replace(' ('. t('not verified') .')', '', theme_username($object));
 }
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