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Yes, same theme.

I was not trying to get a blank template.  I was only observing that on a clean install, the page template shows as blank in SPF.  When it shows as blank, it works.  When "default" appears, it does not work.  If you do a clean install of SPF 5 where it creates the forum page, you will see that SPF shows the page template as blank.

I am not changing the page template when I edit the page in WP.  I don't have to change anything, other than to save it.  On saving, "default" appears in SPF and then it won't work.  I don't know if this is a Genesis thing or a multisite thing.  I suspect it is NOT Genesis, because I am also using a Genesis theme on my test site on the same multisite install, where it works fine after the WP page is saved.

When it doesn't work (which is just trying to view a forum), it redirects to the home page.  My multisite install is setup such that if it can't find or generate the page, it redirects to the home page.  So something about having a template throws a twist into it.

You said SP is just showing an informational display.  Fair enough.  But why does the information change when the post is saved and the page template is not changed?  When SP created the new forum page, why doesn't it display "default" as the information?

In attempting to do another test, I ran into another strange situation.

I set SP to uninstall, deactivated the plugin, and it removed tables.  I reactivated, went to install, and instead of a steady progress from table creation to beyond, the orange status bar displays from start to finish virtually in an instant and no tables are created.  If I click the button after install, it restarts the install loop.  I have run installation several times this AM; is there a counter on it?

Also, is sfInstallID in wp_options one of your settings?

Deleting sfInstallID and the passage of time allowed the install to complete.  I know there are 10 steps or so.  My point earlier was that the progress bar indicated they were completing, but they weren't.  It showed installation complete, but no tables were created.  Is there any sort of timer/cookie that would block successive uninstalls/new installs?

When SP auto-creates the forum page, it does NOT add a _wp_page_template to wp_postmeta.  With no _wp_page_template, I can access the forums.  Once I save the page on the WP backend, _wp_page_template is added to postmeta, and at that point, the forums generate a 302 error.

When you add a new page to WP, it DOES put _wp_page_template in postmeta, so the fact that it is not there has something to do with their API or your calling it.  Still, if you put it in, that's what breaks things for me, so your fix might only cause things to break sooner.