i am so sorry i missed this.
bobbyb, referrals are given to you when somebody joins and they list you as how they heard about bt2. so...5 people listed you!!
joad, we all start out with 10 points. i will find the link to the thread we had that explains it better than i can. welcome!
here is the thread :
http://forums.braintalk2.org/showthread.php?t=389