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I am trying to test out the CiviCRM demo with Joomla, however, when I go to the demo I am presented with the Joomla frontend and am able to login with demo/demo, but I don't see the same administration tools as is setup for the Drupal demo.

I'm glad you asked your question.  I use CiviCRM under Drupal, however, when I try the Joomla demo I don't have a clue what I'm looking at.  Where is the advanced search on the Joomla demo?

My apologies if I wasn't clear.  I guess what I was trying to point out was that with the Drupal demo, it seemed as if you had full access to the administration area to see how CiviCRM was managed and integrated into the Drupal system.  However, with the Joomla demo, it looked as if we were only seeing some parts of the CiviCRM application from the frontend.  I had thought that we would be able to see how CiviCRM operates 'underneath the hood' so to say with Joomla as well.

Yeah - I wish we could figure out a safe way to do this. Until then, your choices are to play with the Drupal demo - which isn't a bad option since the backend view of CiviCRM in Joomla is almost identical. OR - install your own copy and explore...

This is probably due to Joomla's abysmal ACL system.  A black mark on what is otherwise a fantastic OSS CMS system.