This may sound a little dumb but what is the highest priority order in relation to the JomSocial system plugin? Upon going to my plugin directory my Jomsocial plugin is at order 1. Quite simply I make the registration validator at level 0 to be sure it's higher than Jomsocial?

Yes, that's what I had to do. I just kept decreasing the order until it was at the top of the list (well, nearly - I think there were one or two Joomla core plugins above it).

I've just tested and released 2.0.9. It includes a whitelist bugfix as well that was reported earlier today. Please install and check the Jomsocial protection again. Let me know if any problems!

Installed and working perfectly. I checked the logs and Botscout has already blocked numerous attempts. This is a great component and should be on ALL websites (except the spammers)

Keep up the great work SOLVED

Andy