Whilst I.m on the subject, if it needs special attention to install then there should be a clear barrier to installing it directly from the plugin page.
Thanks for the links @mercime. I have question for the Buddypress team – Why force people to do things that they are not qualified for? It would be better if BuddyPress were able to cope with webhost scripts instead of forcing a manual install of WordPress.
The reason we use WordPress is because we do not want or are not capable of all that techy stuff.
I installed BuddyPress 1.5.1. If I could login to my site admin I’d tell you which version of bbPress was installed. However, as they seem to have screwed up my site I can’t.