I agree about adding groups. I am 3 hours in using the extras plugin. If someone can give me a hint on how to go back to step one easily from within the bp_before_group_details_creation_step I have it finished and will post my changes here.
This is because the dir-search class is set to position relative. Just take out the position:relative for div.dir-search in wp-content/plugins/buddyvents/css/events.css on line 1.
