By the way if you click on a menu link it just gives a 404. So basically the back end seems to be reading the content from the database but the front end shows nothing. It appears to be showing the plugins as I think that the drop down menu is a plugin. I tried creating a new page to see if that would show up.. nothing.
I am not sure how that would help but yes I did. I just went into my admin and click on update permalinks… is there anything else I should do with them? This is rather frustrating as everything is perfect in the back end!