ok, here is what I just did…
1) deleted all databases completely
2) created brand new database for the MU/BP install
3) Installed latest trunk of MU 2.7
4) Tested everything…no issues at all
5) Installed latest trunk of BP
6) Looked at the DB, the correct fields are there
7) Tested everything…no issues at all
–“Full Name” Field is there
–Registration goes perfectly
The above is using the WPMU Default theme!
Now, I have pulled that problem script out of the header of my custom theme and am going to upload it, activate it and see what happens without the script. Will report back.
—-UPDATE—-
Everythign worked fine. Next.
Ok, I added the php script back into the header….”Full Name” field gone again. So we have done the same procedure abotu 10 times and have concluded that that will not fix the issue. I think its time to start looking at this differently. I can say with 100% certainty that this all worked fine, perfectly, ALWAYS without exception on the Buddypress Beta 1. Back to square one!
Actually, it would be the other way around. dbDelta is actually a wordpress function that plugins can call to get upgraded. Andrew mentioned that this would all be sorted out with a plan to address buddypress by the multi-db 2.8 release. The reason you have to comment out all the dbDelta lines of code is due to a compatibility error that will fill your errors logs 
As well, the search breaks with multi-db since it needs to call more than 1 database since one is global and one is for specific users information, it fails. It tries to find a member specific query in the global DB (since that is the one that is called first) and can’t find the info which causes an error.
The multi-db code also puts all user activity tables in the same DB right now (since it can’t spread them around without code to do so), so the only benefit you get is if you need this solution for multiple blogs. It actually created them all in the global DB when I used the move-blogs tool, but wanted to find them in the same DB as main blog. I had to copy all the user activity tables to that DB for it to work. If you start with a fresh install, it will create them in the right DB straight away.
Summing up, by WPMU and multi-db 2.8 and a 1.0 BP final release, it will draw more attention so that the solutions will have a clear goal to shoot for. This is a topic better suited in the Premium wpmudev forums as well I think. Glad to discuss it further there!
Trent
oh thanks Andy this sounds good!
and now i take the opportunity to ask if there is a repository i18n for buddypress in the svn, and, if is yes, how update the language files.
thank you for the great work you do.
Arturo
BPIT Staff
Hi,
I read the post about BuddyPress and WordPressMU, and i’ve a question about the feature that allows install, download and update BuddyPress through WPMU backend in WordPressMU language?
For example, I have installed WPMU in Italian, I can install BP in Italian from the backend of WPMU? Or must still rely on the sites of translation like buddypress-it.it for the Italian language and then insert the files in bp-languages?
Tomorrow will see the release of RC-1 and not the final 1.0 version. Please see the post via the link below for more information:
http://buddypress.org/blog/2009/02/rc-1-new-wordpress-mu-functionality/
In case anyone else had a similar problem — I needed to replace the code from the buddypress-home theme’s function.php file.
I’m working on an educational blogging/community/elearning service (a bit like edublogs) for the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam.
Have a look @ http://teachr.nl/ There’s not much content online yet, still playing with themes, sql caching and apache tuning (eventually we envision about +10K blogs on the server.
hey im new to bp and i just want to thankx and i have seen some very kool sites here and found out many ways i can n prove my wp-bp site
Should be fully translatable in the latest.
MartinNr5: need help with the Swedish translation? I was about to start doing that next week, but I see no need to re-do finished work.
My only fix was to run bbpress 1.0-Alpha-6. Please read the most important topic in this forum @ https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471 (about installing buddypress and integrating bbpress).
Read the first post, you’ll find that everything you need to know is there 
Also http://bavatuesdays.com/integrating-wpmu-buddypress-and-bbpress/ is an excellent tutorial.
ok, im at https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk/
and I have TortoiseSVN downloaded, installed + firefox addon
whats the procedure to get the most recent trunk? (know where I can find a simple 1,2,3 step guide online?)
I’m not sure if this should go here, wpmu, or bbpress, but I can’t find a solution anywhere. I’m running wpmu 2.7, buddypress & bbpress 0.9.0.4 And cannot get integration to work, cannot login a user (except keymaster) in bbpress, group forums (which is what I really want) in buddypress do not work. I’ve tried some suggestions on the forums, think it’s a problem with the SECRET_KEY, database key, cookies thing. I have many keys in my wp-config file, no “entry” key in my wp options.php. Have not found a clear explanation of how to get this working, the docs steps don’t work. Any help? Anyone else having this problem?
How do I get group forums to work?
Thanks all,
-pythagoras
Hi,
i just installed BuddyPress without any problems. Everythink works, except:
After activating my own theme, i can’t open my home directory. http://mydomain.com/blog redirects me to http://mydomain.com/blog/members/admin/
everything is 755… i even copied the plugin-sidebar.php and plugin-template.php
does anyone know where the problem ist?
This is a super cool plugin. It allows you to offer an upgrade plan which turns off advertising, increases a users storage space, etc.. Im not sure if its buddypress friendly yet, but it seems like it would fit well in some buddypress developer plans.
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/supporter
BRian
These are the tickets left.
I will be posting an announcement on the blog today regarding the release and more information about the plans going forward.
Download the skeleton component and read through it, it shows you how to record custom activity stream items:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1172
I was planning on using the multi-db plugin for my wordpressmu + buddypress website.
However, on their forums I am told the following
You can use multi-DB with BP, BUT you may have to create the global BP tables manually.
Once they are created , BP should run fine. The other thing that you should do once the
tables are created is go through the main BP files and comment out all of the dbDelta
lines of code (one for each BP global table)
Are there plans to fix buddypress so that it will work properly with a multi-db setup?
It will be wise to announce today to delay the release or not. I do not want to sit and wait until the announcement to change at last min tomorrow.
If this works like it sounds like it should be integrated into the core code.
Dang you burtadsit! Forums were removed off my list when going live this weekend. It wasn’t integrated enough to be worth it. Now I’m going to have to reconsider…
Buddypress was working great and then I upgraded the plugins to the latest version and now I am experiencing an issue. If I try to go to any blog posts from the main blog, it will redirect to the current user’s profile. If the user isn’t logged in, it prompts them to sign in. The issue doesn’t occur with member blogs, only the main blog. Any ideas on what’s happening here? I have MU setup with directories and the main blog has a permalink structure of “/blog/%category%/%postname%”.
Thanks!
My guess is that may get pushed back, judging by the tickets currently in the trac.