confusing interface for staff registering contacts for events

When staff (at a client org) go to register people for paid events there is a difference in the interface and the ability to actually take/process a payment depending on what path is taken to the registration form.

If they start from the event admin page and click "Event Links" -> "Register Participant" they get a form that only allows for entering the last 4 digits of the credit card number (which of course is not enough data to actually charge the person the fee) If they start at a contact record, click the Events tab and then Submit Credit Card Event Registration, once they select the event and the price from the price set, they get a form that allows for entering all necessary payment information which does allow them to charge the user the fee.
the suggestion from Jon G worked.

change is to templates/CRM/Event/Form/ManageEvent/Tab.tpl at line 35

<li><a class="crm-event-participant" href="{crmURL p='civicrm/participant/add' q="reset=1&action=\ add&context=standalone&eid=$id"}">{ts}Register Participant{/ts}</a></li> 

should be:
<li><a class="crm-event-participant" href="{crmURL p='civicrm/participant/add' q="reset=1&action=\ add&context=standalone&eid=$id&mode=live"}">{ts}Register Participant{/ts}</a></li>

I'll submit a patch soon