Just to clarify.
You are publishing a project and letting the server auto-create the SP web
site and don't want the users automaticaly added. Hope thats right or this
reply will be useless
I'm wondering what would hapen if you were to create custom groups and not
use the defaults (project manager, team memeber blah blah). The linking is
done by group name and I wonder if its hard coded. If it is then it wouldnt
map any of oyur custom group people. Just a thought..
Also when creating subwebs you do have the option of not inheriting
permissions from the parent web..
Hope this helps..
R