I just deleted and recreated the site. The thing I'm encountering now that's different than before is that I was getting errors on directory creation. Various forms of errors with and without ftp layer enabled.
I was able to manually create the cache, tmp, installation, and template directories and it seemed to execute reasonably well. I have admin access and can share components, modules, and plugins.
But the problem still stands that the front end just will not respond. The site has a single menu item: HOME directed to the frontpage component, but it just will not load.
I did find a command in my .htaccess that indicated a nofollow for symbolic links. At this point in time, there's no .htaccess files on the master or the slave site.
Very frustrated on this and not sure what to do.
master.scoutingpro.net
slave.scoutingpro.net