Hi there,
after switching from extended name fields with combined first_name, last_name fields on register form to single value fields (separate fields for first name and last name) no name values are saved in first_name, last_name rows of user table. they are just empty.
of course, i set the corresponding fields in user registration field mapping, even deleted this and created a new mapping but that also didn't help.
Don't know what else to try except setting this directly in functions.php on register.
ps. values also don't show up in related entries, as well.