After a clean install of 2.0.13.2 (and later 2.0.13.1 just to be sure), I get the main theme page (I've tried all three with the distro) with nothing except the top and bottom banners. No access to admin.php and user.php shows the same thing. I finally turned on Smarty debugging directly in the database and see the following:

{$xoops_showcblock} 0
{$xoops_showlblock} 0
{$xoops_showrblock} 0

Is there someplace I can force the display of the blocks so I can login and get to work?

PHP 4.2.2
MySQL 3.23.56
Apache 2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
Browser IE 6.0, Firefox 1.04, Firefox 1.5

Thanks in advance.

--jeff

Try using:
http://my_site.com/user.php

then you should be able to log in and go to
http://my_site.com/admin.php