No worries. We'll be releasing v5.1.2 soon (if we can test and fix that last few things we're working on). If you do find something critical, we'll gladly help get it going and release a v5.1.3 if necessary.. though we're hoping 5.1.2 will be the last v5.1 release.
Again though, no one else has reported this and the auto-linking of users is a very common/popular feature. Doesn't mean there isn't a bug, but it's likely specific to your configuration in some way, if so.
Thanks,
Alex