When a customer enters their login in details, they are taken to a page with the following wording on it: "Registered Area, Welcome to the registered user area of our site." If they want to continue to register for the event they intended to register for, they need to then click on the "register" tab in the menu then reselect the event they wanted to register for. Is there a way to avoid this step so after they login, they are taken back to the event they originally intended to register for?
Your site login module has no direct connection to DT Register as you login to Joomla, not login to DT Register. You can set the redirection for your login module so you determine what URL the user goes to after logging in. You can also choose to just reload the page you are already on (if you are using the Community Builder login module).