I first heard of silkroad when the site was down.
When I checked again today it was back, spent a couple of hours getting TOR to work with my firewall and now found out there's no obvious way to make an account.
Could anyone pm me and point me in the right direction?

Iceman, I am in the same boat you are. If you figure it out, please let me know as I need to figure out how/where to register. I'm all set with my Tor connection.
thx
-WN