BuddyPress.org

Installed 1.5 but am stuck. thought it might be the theme Blog MU went back to default BuddyPress theme still stuck but with the forum. I installed bb-forum and there seems to be a conflict between BuddyPress forum an bb-forum ?!? I am relatively new to BP having done one other install months ago. Should I have not done the bb-forum thing? Where is a guide? I have read about the 1.5 being in pre-release … then why the heck is it the only version available? I am really tearing my hair out.