How about making all new registered users "Authors"?  i think that's what you're looking at.  If you have special modules you don't want seen by them, then set the permissions on those modules to publisher, or above.

Sadly, user permission is a little lacking in the current version of the CMS, but this is on the roadmap to be improved.

To make that happen automatically, look in /components/com_registration/registration.php

About half way down the file, look for:
Code:
$row->gid = $acl->get_group_id('Registered','ARO');
And replace Registered by Author

That should do you Smiley Or rather, that will make all your new users register as Authors rather than just registered.  If you need to update current users, if you have a few, the simplest is to go through the user management through the admin control panel.  If you have tons, you'll have to play a bit with your DB, and that gets to be a tad of a headache.
 
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Nic
I *do* mean the following quote:
"A community that excludes even one of its members is no community at all" - D. Wilkins