Thanks for all the help and feedback – this support forum is great!
Having had so many minor problems pop up, I decided to try and remove wordpress and start over. The reason was because I had done a scripted install via cPanel using “QuickInstall”.
So I did a manual install of wordpress, then installed BuddyPress, then installed BBPress.
Happy to report all the issues I had before are gone. Everything seems to be working as it should.
2. Turns out I’m an idiot…I was not trying to delete a group, I was deleting the ACTIVITY post showing I created the group. I was, in fact, able to delete a group by going to the right place (DUH).
3. Still a problem – I also tried deleting the request I sent to the subscriber test account but it says “Friendship request could not be cancelled.”
4. Not sure how/why but I can now log out as admin. One thing of note…all of my test accounts and my admin account have the same password for now. I changed my admin account. Logged out via the Dashboard and then logged back in. Shortly there after I was able to log out of my admin account using the BuddyPress Log Out button that was not working for me before.