Salted Hash Login

While I've been developing planlist/planr/pantracker (still haven't decided on a name yet) I've been aware that my login system is lacking somewhat. I decided to grapple the bull by the horns last week, installed the Salted Hash Login Generator! and tried to incorporate it into my app. SHLG has email support for forgotten passwords and account confirmation as well enabling passwords to be altered (a problem I've been struggling with), not to mention built in localization.
I dived into the code and just hit wall after wall. I'm sure it's really beautifully written code but I found it incredibly difficult to follow what was going on. This all started to give me doubts about my idea, my abilities and so on.
And then last night I had another moment of clarity - keep it simple. I don't need to be as good a hack as the guy who wrote SHLG. So I'm going to take the bits that I need and incorporate them into my login model. Bosh.