Nope. I deactivated all plugins except for BuddyPress & the Template pack. Still no luck with the comments. Just goes to the top of the screen when clicked.
@mercime thanks for the advice. I did try the second method to no avail. I went ahead and adjusted the forum/index.php just to make sure I could align it correctly, which it looks to have worked okay. I’ll probably just do that to the other…15. Par for the course of a career in befriending the interwebs.
I’m not sure what happened but last I checked the button in question started functioning.