Enrolment

We are relatively new to using Moodle, so I apologize if this is in the wrong place. Please let me know if there is a better place to ask this question.

We run a site for women with disabilities, and Moodle fits many of the needs that we have, but we're struggling with the best way to set up account registration as we need to have any new members fill out of form with a list of questions, then we would need to auto confirm the email they gave, then finally we would need it to be approved by an administrator before the account was created.

It seems like there is kind of a cludgy way to do this by requiring certain profile fields, but I don't necessarily want all this info to be in their profiles. It seems like it would be more graceful to create our own form and create them via database, but I'm not sure if there might be a more integrated or easier way.

Any help is appreciated!