I have to admit I’m still confused–there is no the_time() reference in index.php, nor is there any obvious place that I can see where you would insert such a date command. I just want the date of a blog post to appear on the main page, as it would in an ordinary WordPress blog installation, but it’s unclear to me where one would do so.
The style sheet is a file that basically makes your site look pretty–it’s what controls the layout and the colors and the fonts and all that stuff. It sounds like you somehow downloaded and installed a corrupt version (or at any rate an incomplete version) of BuddyPress that was missing the style.css file.
If you did an automatic install through WordPress, I’d first try just uninstalling and reinstalling BuddyPress and see if that works. Otherwise, you’ll want to look through the files installed on your webhost for a file in your BuddyPress folder called something like style.css (at any rate, it’ll end with .css). If it’s not there, you’d need to add it. I can tell you more about how to do that, if you need, but try the automatic uninstall and reinstall first.
I had the same problem, and then about a week later it mysteriously fixed itself. I don’t know that that’s at all helpful, but if you don’t get any other answers, you might try waiting and see what happens. Not that that’s much help. . .
How recently did you set this up? I couldn’t upload avatars for a day or so after I installed BP. Not sure why, but you might give it a day or two, which is an irritating but easy fix.
