Error 500 when installing BP plugin — Please help the newb!
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		OK, I am a total newb at this switch-over from WP standalone to BP, but I sure hope this community can help me. 1and1.com is my hosting 
 I successfully loaded WP 3.0
 I have successfully activated the multisite capability (I see the superadmin panel, and all options are available)
 I used FTP to place the extracted BP plugin 1.2.5.2 into my wp-content/plugins folder
 When I log into my WP site as admin, and go to plugins, I see BP there and have the choice to click “network activate”
 BEFORE clicking that I ensured that .htaccess has the mod_rewrite enabled [see my pasted in .htaccess file below]
 I then logged out and logged back in to admin, and went to activate the plugin, but immediately get the following error message:
 “Error 500 – Internal server error”PLEASE HELP THE NEWB! Thanks! Jerry P.S. is it any clue that a “buddypress.tmp” file with filesize zero appears in my /wp-contents/plugins folder? .htaccess file contents 
 # .htaccess file as suggested by wordpress for multisite & buddypress
 # BEGIN BELOWRewriteEngine On 
 RewriteBase /
 RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]# uploaded files 
 RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin 
 RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] 
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
 RewriteRule ^ – [L]
 RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
 RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
 RewriteRule . index.php [L]
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