Hum... we need to fix that in the next release.

Instead of core hacking, you can temprorarily solve this by changing your skins _html.header.inc.php file . If you dont have one inside your skin folder, simply copy the one from parent ./skins folder to ./skins/your_skin folder.

Change the part that says:

	<title><?php
		// ------------------------- TITLE FOR THE CURRENT REQUEST -------------------------
		request_title( $params );
		// ------------------------------ END OF REQUEST TITLE -----------------------------
	?></title>

to:

   <?php
	$user_ID = param( 'user_ID', 'integer', '' );
	$UserCache = & get_UserCache();
	$User = & $UserCache->get_by_ID( $user_ID );
	if( $disp_detail == 'user' ) {
		echo '<title>User page for: '.$User->get( 'preferredname' ).'</title>';	
	}
	else {
	?>
	<title><?php
		// ------------------------- TITLE FOR THE CURRENT REQUEST -------------------------
		request_title( $params );
		// ------------------------------ END OF REQUEST TITLE -----------------------------
	?></title>
    <?php } // end else ?>

That should output: User page for: Kairn

Thanks for the feedback. I ran into another issue which is the data on the user page is viewed as duplicate data for all the user profiles (this is for a company and so everyone has the same phone number and all the descriptor titles are the same). I want to simply completely disable user profiles from the public view. Any idea how I can do that?

thanks again

You can set them to NOINDEX so they dont show up in google. See Blog settings > SEO and look for author.

as far as user access you can simply block, or redirect the profile pages. To do that, you can

a.) Copy _user.disp.php from parent ./skins folder in your ./skins/your_skin folder

b.) Add a conditional in your skin's index.main.php such as if($disp === user) ..

So when a user profile page is requested you can either block, redirect or do whatever you want