Well I'm probably not the brightest out of the bunch. I've tinkered with it enough and looked around some on here for some answers so now I'm completely at a loss for what's going on with my wp site.
The problem is that when I enable permalinks and then go to the backend "wp-admin" site I can't seem to access certain links like "Page" or "Posts" they serve me a 500 error message.
I had just installed BuddyPress and when I enable the permalinks the plugin pages work but when I disable the permalink I can't access the buddypress deal. So that's the minor problem.