@padawaness did you resolve this? I’m having the exact same problem. I’m trying to develop my site locally, but cannot get BuddyPress 1.8.1 to Activate – I too am using WAMP…
I’m still having real trouble with this, can anybody please help me?
// INTEGRATION NOTES FOR CUSTOM DEVELOPERS
// You can insert your existing CMS user Global values into the
// login procedure. Simply replace the values $_FOO
// and $_FOO with your SESSION, COOKIE or MySQL results.