bbbpress is forum software, buddypress gives you more in depth user profiles groups and activity streams (amongst other social netowrky type things) the two can be used separately or together.
Firstly, to answer your question, no. The two things are complimentary.
I need little sites off the main site, not multisites.
That sentence contradicts itself, if you want a network of wordpress sites based on a single installation, then multisite exactly is what you need to do that.
If, however, you are looking to give members of your site posting authority on your single site and you want to restrict what categories they can use then you don’t need either BP or multisite. You need to change the default user role and probably use a plugin like Restrict Caterogies:
wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-categories/
bare in mind, i’m not sure how easy it is to undo the multisite switch that you have already thrown. Probably, others here know more then i do when it comes to reversing course on a multisite switch but it’s not something i would even try.
you can’t really hid the entire profile out of the box but you can hide most of the fields and info by setting the default visibility in the profile field setup screens.
buddypress only recognizes 2 roles by default as far as i’m aware anyway, Admin/superadmin and everyone else. there’s probably a way to make a plugin that would do that if you know about such things.
looks like you are on shared hosting 40 megabytes is probably not going to work for any halfway popular buddypress site you should consider upgrading to a vps.
Yeah and i think order the file is listed in the html doc also sets a priority so that if you load a two css files with identical rules, the second file’s definition will override the first.
Generally speaking most themes allow you to add your own css rules and redefinitons that will override anything in the files.
By definition features are only added to open source projects if people feel it’s important enough to make it happen. If you think theres a feature that every buddypress site should have then you should first lobby for it to the core group of contributors (through trac for wordpress/buddypress) and ideally offer your own time to help the develop the feature if the group agrees that it should be part of the core feature set.
If you are unable to convince others you are still free to fork the project into your own thing or better yet create a plugin which adds this functionality for others who feel as you do.
i believe those mojo market installs are real installs and do not use shared resources you should be able to install buddypress on it just fine but you should confirm with blue host that you have full file access to the installation and are not using shared wordpress core files before proceeding if you want to be sure.
not very familiar with multi network myself but as i understand it you can “upgrade” so-to-speak a regular network to a multi network. if i am correct it would almost certainly make sense to keep things simple until they need not to be.
