Hi Stephanie,
I have found that some of the permissions had not been changed over to 755.
I have done that and now we can use the admin to add and edit items but it wont give permission to delete.
Also everything looks ok but the shopping cart wont collect the orders as you click add to cart. It stays empty.
This is the biggest problem.
I really would appreciate any know how as i am not that experienced with trouble shooting programming stuff.
Also the site was running ok recently until it had to be swapped to another host. The host apparently said they are compatible with this site.