hi rocknlied,
if you start a new site now i would recommend have a look at the new version 2.0 of the CC coming now:
http://themekraft.com/blog/custom-community-2-0-current-status/
should be ready in a couple of weeks, the old CC will not be supported further..
buddypress areas, slider, footer options and some other things are not finished yet, but you can get a feeling of whats coming up.
and the stuff that is already there is better than current CC.
complete fresh HTML5 codebase, super lean CSS, all options with live preview in customizer and the theme is truly responsive.. 🙂
and you got twitter bootstrap 3.0 integrated 😉 awesome features too
hope that helps, konrad