Hi Greg,
The reason you encounter the login message is because the 'account' menu item is set to Registered access.
FYI, the forgot username/password links in EasySocial uses /account/ as part of its url. Coincidentally your menu item also uses /account/. This makes the system think that you are trying to load the menu item and hits the login error.
To address this, my suggestion is to change the alias of the menu item id=160 to a different alias.