403 when logged in

Hello,
1st problem: Receive a 403 when logged in
I updated Community Polls today and realized I was unable to get to the front end Community Polls Home page. When I try I receive a 403 page.

1) The menu link is set to public
2) The permissions are set so everyone (public and guest) can view results and vote
3) change permissions for Public and Guest to allow Create (though this was done only for testing)
4) Permissions for all other user groups are set to Allow on everything.

I am a bit stumped on this. Though I bet it might be something silly I missed. I am hoping so.

2nd Problem: Vote on module results in continual spinner.
Same as above, however this applies to everyone.
1) Set permissions to allow everyone to vote.
2) updated all modules community polls plugin: 1.0.0/ communitypolls 1.7.2/mod_communitypolls2.0.0
3) updated the core jquery to 1.6.2
4) updated all other plugins to 1.7.0 (juserpolls/community polls)

Joomla: 2.5.1
Jomsocial 2.4.2
Community Polls 1.7.2 (just purchased and updated today)

Any thoughts or ideas?
Thank you very much, it is greatly appreciated.

Sarrene'