Thank you for the links!
I had updated everything and disabled some like DOCMAN which I am not moving forward with (I think - not sure which document handler I will end up with). The site is completely up-to-date.
But I still can't see any members' names in the members directory and the count is still 21, not 400+. Everything worked perfectly in 2.5 but it's not in 3.5.8. so far. The backoffice seems okay though which is a huge relief.
BTW, I watched your excellent video tutorial on updating to 3.x and there is, perhaps, a missing piece in that Joomla apparently no longer supports the JTableInterface::load() in the same way. This caused no end of problems - some components that didn't show up in the update list were not compatible and because there was three of them(DT Register, Chronforms and one other,) the error messages didn't show up at all. I finally got some debugging to display (nothing was showing no matter what I did) and saw the fatal errors and was able to disable the components until the home page came back. I will be updating all the disable components today.
Why didn't I do that in the first place? Two reasons: DT Register indicated that you should update Joomla before them (wrong!) and you mentioned some component and plugins working with 3.x as well as they did in 2.x and when I saw there were no updates I made the incorrect assumption that they would work. This is wholly my fault, I am not laying blame or even pointing fingers - it is just an FYI.
Thanks in advance. You guys never fail to help.
Mark