Some users are still having problems with the pop-up login. I think they are actually getting 403s because of the CSRF protection. So I have modified the base template to always have a javascript variable called csrf_token available when they aren't logged in. The ajax_login.js script was then modified to send this value with the ajax post. Fingers crossed.

"""
Urls for the core application.
"""
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

urlpatterns = patterns('core.views',
    url(r'^markdown_help/$', 'markdown_help', name='core-markdown_help'),
    url(r'^ajax/users/$', 'ajax_users', name='core-ajax_users'),
)