I added a buddy of mine to the Administrators group to test and he can Open New Thread / Reply to Posts...

I am not sure what i've done wrong or haven't done but I didn't restrict anything on the forums and added the Roles Users are in to the "Authorized Edit Roles" of the forums. Do know if I had to but getting desperate .

I noticed that a "regular" user doesn't see the "New Thread", "My Settings" and "My Posts" buttons. I would've thought that no special permissions are required to see the "My Settings" button...

For "regular" user only "Search" and "Forum Home" buttons are displayed.

Anyone that I add to the "Administrators" role see all 5 buttons and can post new thread.

I will keep looking but running out of ideas :).

Thx again for any help you can offer.

Ok last post but I thought I should let everyone know that it doesn't look like it has anything to do with forums. I tried the event module and a similar behavior is occuring. I give permissions to certain users to add / edit events and they don't see the buttons so it has nothing to do with forums.

I will investigate and post in a different forum if I can't figure it out :).