I think I will have to leave trying to get my Elgg installation going for the moment. It is taking too much time and help seems difficult to find. The latest problems are no tbeing able to uplaod new profile icons/avatars. They are reported as successfully uploaded but do not appear either as the new picture or in the preview and cropping area. This may be related to a file upload problem. Files appear to upload OK but when they are opened or downloaded they are empty. A txt file I uploaded was 0 bytes and a PowerPoint file had no slides in it. I’m sure all this is fixable. Certainly plenty of Elgg sites work fine. But the forums suggest a lot of people have a lot of problems!