Very true….same thing here.
I reinstalled with wordpress at root of apache and it worked.
I found this in a blog….is this the best set of tools for this:
Again, WordPress is great if you want to blog or set up a huge social network ala BuddyPress and WordPress MU. You can set up advanced user roles using Capability Manager and then use those roles to provide restricted access to parts of your site via User Access Manager. Of course there are many more ways to do this, but I’ve used these and they appear to really work well.