I’ve been trying with two different child themes, the 3 column theme and the widget theme. I can’t get either of them to work satisfactorily. The 3 column theme completely falls apart, apart from the home page, if you use IE (and lots of people do, unfortunately) so I dropped that. I tried the widget theme, but that leaves me with 2 home pages, my original home page (which I can’t see how to hide), which acts like the default theme, and the new thin wide thin home page, which has all the widgets I put on it but no content, no matter that I set it as the main page and also the blog page. I am using WP3 RC2 and , BuddyPress Default 1.2.4.1 / BuddyPress Widget Theme 1.2.1 / BP Columns 1.2.
I have followed all the above. Can anyone give me some further advice on this?