Do you have a custom page-front.tpl.php? It seems that something in the theme is most likely broken. Two items that rely on javascript (admin_menu and theme_devel) are not working so I suspect you may be missing either $scripts or $closure on the front page somehow.

Thanks for the help Rob. I do not have a page-front used in my theme, but things might have just gotten even weirder. If you go to my site with www. proceeding the domain name, the changes are not recognized. But if just go to it without www, the changes are evident. I have never encountered a problem like this. I don't even know how to trouble shoot it.

Check out what I talking about:
http://thomaslattimore.com - changes evident

http://www.thomaslattimore.com - not changes evident

tlattimore, check out http://www.drupal-check.org/no... -NP

Thanks nonprofit. I will apply those changes for sure, but that still doesn't fix the issues I am really having. Why are changes made not evident when the homepage is viewed with a www. prefixing it?

www and non-www domains (which are otherwise the same) can point to two totally different sources. I'll bet one is cached and one is not. -NP

I applied those changes to the .htaccess file, then logged in and flushed the cache. Unfortunately I was still getting all the same problems with www. prefix, no changes, and no admin_menu. So I decided to do the opposite with the .htaccess. Forward all users with www to just the domain with http://. Probably not ideal, but everything is working better now. The changes I have made are evident and admin_menu is working. I'd really like to know what was causing the problems, but at least things are working now.

Thanks for the help guys.

This may be a really obvious answer, but have you tried clearing the cache in site building > performance?