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Hi all - I am a bit new to CiviCRM - I inherited the job about 7 months ago when my present client needed someone to act as webmaster for their site and move the site to a new server/host.  I have since then learn quite a few things ( I bought the Packt book on DRUPAL since I only worked on Fedora in the past) and have been inching thru the docs, faqs and blogs......because the installation was not configured properly (my belief). I have since corrected several things and the site is moving toward stability but this error has me stumped!

We are running under DRUPAL 4.7 with CiviCRM 1.6 (I upgraded these during the server move 5 months ago from 4.6 and 1.4 respectively)  Now we want to modify the existing user registration form to allow users to join our forum ONCE they have been verified (authenicated) and would like to do this via the registration form..........and I thought I could best accomplish this new profile through the use of ACLs.  When I go to Administer -> Access Control -> Manage ACL I get the following error:

user warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: "CRM/Acl/Page/Acl.tpl" in /home/election/public_html/modules/civicrm/packages/Smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1095.

I also get the same error if I try to add user to a role via the Adminster CiviCRM -> Access Control -> Add Users to Role item.
After plowing thru support docs and blogs, I found a post that said that the mentioned file might not exist or might be corrupted - but in checking the folder, I find a file with the same name but a php extension, which I assume is used in the creation of the tpl file but renaming that file or copying it to the folder as a tpl file will not correct this error.  I copied the file from my local hard disk to the server since I untarred the file locally before uploading.

Can someone help or point me in the right direction?   I would love to get this project off my plate and go on to other problems -  Also, I would love the title of a book that explains CiviCRM to me but failed to find one at my local book store - is there one?

Thanks in advance for any help
Shadow

Thanks Lobo - I will try both of your suggestions

Shadow