Yes, as stated, it is a single site install. The hosting is iPage, which I do not believe to be a problem as I have installations on that host running and with no issue.
Just installed another site on the host with no issue. My thought at this point is to dump it all and make a fresh install of WP and see if that has any effect. After the mentioned ‘failure’ I went to another site and successfully installed the WP and BP config with no issues 🙁