having issues with the auction module part of e-commerce

Hello,

I'm using drupal 4.7 for a company internal site to host documents, information, etc. Recently I was asked if there was a way to add an auction to the site to auction off a few tickets. After doing some searching, I came across the e-commerce module that contains an auction module, which sounds perfect for my needs. So I downloaded both the ecommerce module as well as the token module.

After downloading, I following this page to enable it:
http://drupal.org/node/67918?destination=node%2F67918

I enabled all EC modules as well as the token module. I was then able to create an auction just fine. I went to access control, and for the auction module I set all levels to be able to bid. I created a second auction after changing those permissions.

My problem is that I do not see any way to actually bid! After creating the auctions, which I also had listed on the front page, I can see the words 'bid now' on the front page. However when I click it, it takes me to the node and I see the name/description, but that's it. No inputs, no bid buttons, nothing. I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong; missing a setting somewhere, but I don't know what.

I'd also at this point like to mention that when I go to Administer->Store->settings, I get the white screen of death (I can however access the submenus of that part). I've tried all the adjustments for memory to both php.ini as well as drupal settings.php, and no luck. I even tried numbers as high as 64M, and did a restart of httpd after each attempt.

I hope that someone has come across this issue and may have some advice for me how to remedy this. Thanks in advance.