beat, thanks for your reply. I do appreciate your spirit and personality in helping and responding.

However, the veiled accusations...are they meant to be funny or offensive?

I would never want to waste your time and I do appreciate your help on the forums here.

I would ask, where is the genuine version file? That should indicate to you the answer to the rest of your veiled accusations.

What do you mean by rebranding?

I did try other extensions, but where would the files be left?

On another note, I did go back into the Tools > Check Community Builder Database and got the following:

ERROR: sql query: SELECT a.value AS id, a.aro_id FROM #__core_acl_aro a LEFT JOIN #__users u ON u.id = a.value WHERE a.section_value = 'users' AND u.id IS NULL : returned error: Unknown column 'a.aro_id' in 'field list' SQL=SELECT a.value AS id, a.aro_id FROM fire_core_acl_aro a LEFT JOIN fire_users u ON u.id = a.value WHERE a.section_value = 'users' AND u.id IS NULL

ERROR: sql query: SELECT a.value AS id, a.aro_id FROM #__core_acl_aro a LEFT JOIN #__core_acl_groups_aro_map g ON g.aro_id = a.aro_id WHERE g.aro_id IS NULL : returned error: Unknown column 'a.aro_id' in 'field list' SQL=SELECT a.value AS id, a.aro_id FROM fire_core_acl_aro a LEFT JOIN fire_core_acl_groups_aro_map g ON g.aro_id = a.aro_id WHERE g.aro_id IS NULL

ERROR: sql query: SELECT g.aro_id AS id FROM #__core_acl_groups_aro_map g LEFT JOIN #__core_acl_aro a ON a.aro_id = g.aro_id WHERE a.aro_id IS NULL : returned error: Unknown column 'a.aro_id' in 'where clause' SQL=SELECT g.aro_id AS id FROM fire_core_acl_groups_aro_map g LEFT JOIN fire_core_acl_aro a ON a.aro_id = g.aro_id WHERE a.aro_id IS NULL


Also, the User Management still is giving an error.

Thanks for your help! ...And by the way, many people in the USA value privacy and that's why we wouldn't share our sites and especially not our login or FTP information. I would imagine many would not want to give that out, for security reasons, though I am certain you are trustworthy.

Beat, you're a genius! You were right about the version file! Apparently my hosting company had switched some information in there, in their automated installation! So, I re-installed a new package from Joomla's site and now it is working properly! Unbelievable! So, thank you for helping me diagnose this! I couldn't have done it without you!

I guess a lesson learned:

Please point member/customer to where the version.php file is and ask them to confirm what's there.

I had no idea about potential conflicts that could arise from hosting companies modifying this.

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Anyway, I am loving my Community Builder now! Wow, what a system beat and nant!! I could never have imagined how great it is!

beat, thanks for your reply.

I am glad it's only happened 1 in 20,000 cases! That's good!

I am just happy that this is resolved and would rather let it go at this point, instead of pointing at the hosting company. They are free to modify open source software if they want. They did not strip out Joomla's name or anything. Anyone looking at the code would know right away that it is Joomla.

Attaching that version.php file would reveal the name of the hoster. So, in keeping with the last paragraph, I would rather just let it go.

The simple principle is to make sure you have genuine parts. It's probably best to get the software yourself and install it yourself, rather than using these automated installers.

Let's all do our own install of software directly downloaded from Joomla.org and we won't run into this kind of problem.

P.S. - re: privacy, people consider their domain like their home address. They don't want to give it out in certain circumstances, like on a software site, because of privacy. And they don't like knowing that someone was around in their home and don't know all they could have done.