After a lot of wrestling with bbPress I finally got the message forums back up and running.  There were three plugins that were causing various problems ranging from a 500 error on the server to screwing with the output on the pages and causing html not to be rendered.  They were promising plugins and I will look at them again in the futrure – adSense for bbPress, bb SEO Tools, and Google Sitemap Generator.  In any even I’m happy to have that problem behind me for now and hope that people will continue to make use of the message boards.