My index page shows the boxes for latest files, latest groups, newest members, latest blog posts, latest bookmarks... but, nothing is showing up in them. I'm using the external pages and I edited FRONT PAGE, but nothing has shown up in those boxes...

I have the polls plugin installed and several others. I started a group called movies and when I tried to disable the albums, pages, files, etc. The preferences won't stick. They still show up in the group. I only want to enable group discussion and...