Wow – days later – here’s the outcome. We did as I mentioned above, and the site came up, however, the 3 columns in the middle of the page on this theme weren’t showing up. As soon as I selected columns to show up on the home page, it went back to delivering the same error as above. I turned the middle columns off, and the site is functional again.
Why would this theme’s columns break the site? Any suggestions here?