Thank you, Nick, for your prompt response.
I am going to do a fresh install of everything. It may be there was a hiccup during an installation. I have always loved this program and never encountered issues like this before.
So am going with the idea this was due to an error during installation. If it persists with the fresh install will be back.
I am really hoping my client will agree to purchase this baby as well as GroupJive. I cannot think of anything else that could potentially handle a community so well with Joomla. But I need to prove it.