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Purpose: Moving a published live site to localhost WAMP Server
Joomla! 1.5.14 Stable version, local host is Windows Vista with absolute latest WAMP Server components.

1) I set up WAMP SERVER successfully.
2) Backed up my site using Akeeba Pro (I did a basic backup of just Joomla - no added SQLs or anything special - wanted to try it out simply first. Seemed to go fine - no warnings or errors.
3) Used Kickstart to load into my WAMP/WWW - had a little MySQL privileges issues but worked through them.
4) Did a separate export/import of my separate (non Joomla) SQL database (hopefully later I can include that db in Akeeba backup as that is why I wanted Akeeba Pro - but I decided to walk before running here).

Result
When I bring up the site on my local host (you can see the live site at datingsomeoneelse.com) I get these errors on the page where menus should be: "Warning: Parameter 1 to modMainMenuHelper::buildXML() expected to be a reference, value given in C:\wamp\www\libraries\joomla\cache\handler\callback.php on line"
And in my Joomla Article Manager, I get: "Warning: Parameter 1 to JHTMLGrid::access() expected to be a reference, value given in C:\wamp\www\libraries\joomla\html\html.php on line 87"

My queries against my separate (non-Joomla) database appear to run fine (I imported this outside of Akeeba).

I did due diligence and searched both forums and the only thing I found close was:
"Warning: Parameter 1 to row1block1()...Author: Rynoceros"
The response was to check configuration.php to make sure it did not point to the remote host. I did so and the parameter is livehost = '' -- All other parameters appear to be good.

Would you have any suggestions?
Thank you,
james cagney

I continued searching and in the Joomla forums determined that the issue was compatibility with PHP version 5.3. I installed an extension allowing version 5.2.9 (matching the one on my live site), switched to the 5.2.9 version with the WAMP server control panel. And it seems to be working. Menus are showing and seem to be working properly. :=D

You found the correct answer. Joomla! itself is not php 5.3 compatible until version 1.5.15. I read in a post the other day that Joomla! won't be php 5.3.1 compatible until the release of 1.6.