Thanks @michael! Below is a quote from Brian about the tweak which is from above in this thread.
brian:However the INDEX page will not work until I get the next beta out - there's a small tweak in the core router that is needed for nginx since it sets it uses a slightly different URI on the index than Apache.
Thanks, I appreciate it. Any idea on jrCore beta 10? There are some changes in that version I need for Nginx. Since, I'm working on a template I want to make sure I'm working on the future version. If there isn't an ETA at this time, no problem.