Assign a role upon registration I'd like to assign a specific role when a new user registers on my site using the regular registration form, beyond that of just "authenticated user".

How can I do this?
This is easily accomplished using the Rules module and setting up the "event" and "action" to behave the way you want it to behave.

I set it up so that "after saving a new user" I "added a user role" of the type that I wanted to have. That should do the trick.