== I also tried to use some of the code in prior threads that helped others with this similar problem, but nothing worked. ==
Those won’t work because of different HTML structures in all probability. Let me check on what you’ve posted so far.
EDIT – Please confirm that the codes within header-buddypress.php, sidebar-buddypress.php and footer-buddypress.php are original copies of your theme’s header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php respectively. That is, you have not added any other code to the aforementioned xxx-buddypress.php files.
