HI there…just wanted to give you an update. I had a developer (not from any of those plugins) go in and he fixed it. Here is what he said:

“There’s supposed to be a wrapper around the activity widget with the class (“widget_bp_swa_widget”)
the original activity plugin looks for the node with that classname, and uses that to get the textbox value
for whatever wordpress reason (I’m assuming the new theme strips out that wrapper, but I didn’t dig too deeply into it), that wrapper class doesn’t exist anymore — so the original plugin doesn’t work.”

So, he went into custom side bars and created the wrapper and now its all fixed! Thank you for looking into it!!!