Joomla! Discussion Forums

I created a duplicate Joomla 1.0.12 site on a local server of our live site prior to upgrading to the latest version of Joomla. I'm having a problem with the user menu's that we created on our front page. They all generate 404 errors, yet Administration and Login both work. I turned SEF off, but that had no effect.

Live site software is as follows:

PHP built On: Linux lsh414 2.6.30.2-hw #1 SMP Wed Jul 22 19:22:44 CDT 2009 x86_64
Database Version: 4.1.14-log
PHP Version: 5.2.6-0.dotdeb.1
Web Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7k
WebServer to PHP interface: cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.0.12 Stable [ Sunfire ] 25 December 2006 01:00 UTC
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)

Relevant PHP Settings: Joomla! Register Globals Emulation: OFF
Register Globals: OFF
Magic Quotes: ON
Safe Mode: OFF
File Uploads: ON
Session auto start: OFF
Session save path: /var/lib/php5
Short Open Tags: ON
Output Buffering: OFF
Open basedir: none
Display Errors: ON
XML enabled: Yes
Zlib enabled: Yes
Disabled Functions: none

Test Site Software as follows:

PHP built On: Linux mail 2.6.25.16-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-08-21 00:34:25 +0200 i686
Database Version: 5.0.51a
PHP Version: 5.2.9
Web Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Linux/SUSE)
WebServer to PHP interface: apache2handler
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.0.12 Stable [ Sunfire ] 25 December 2006 01:00 UTC
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)

Relevant PHP Settings: Joomla! Register Globals Emulation: OFF
Register Globals: OFF
Magic Quotes: ON
Safe Mode: OFF
File Uploads: ON
Session auto start: OFF
Session save path: /var/lib/php5
Short Open Tags: OFF
Output Buffering: OFF
Open basedir: none
Display Errors: OFF
XML enabled: Yes
Zlib enabled: No
Disabled Functions: none

Any suggestions would be helpful. My background is IBM Mainframe and I'm still trying to get up to speed on LINUX.