OK, I feel sufficiently stupid... I've been unable to login to my own weblog for a couple of weeks now and after petitioning the MT Support Forum for help (and getting only one response to my cry for help), I've finally figured out the problem (obviously, or I wouldn't be here). For the complete embarrassing story click here.�

After a month or two with no problems, I suddenly got an invalid login/author unknown error message when I tried to login, and being very ignorant of this whole weblog thing (I've only been doing this since September), I searched through and read all of the other questions by people with seemingly the same problem and tried everything that was suggested before even posting a question on the forum, but nothing worked...

I ran the Reset Author Script so I could login with the generic password, and it wouldn't run. I then read that if it won't run through the browser, to run it through a shell access program (I have a Mac, this is harder than it sounds). I managed to finally figure out the commands and do that, and then it told me there was an "Unrecognized character" in the script itself. In the computer world, a new error message (something other than a 500 Internal Server error is actually a sign of progress. So I posted my query to the Support Forum and� waited. Girlie was� nice enough to point out that the reset script wasn't working properly because I'd probably not uploaded it correctly (in ASCII mode). Which, it turns out after I re-uploaded it a few times more (I have a Mac, have mercy on me, OK??) did seem to be the problem with the script.

Now I started getting a new error message (making progress!), "Can't load author". Only the fix for that problem is right back where I started (sigh). Now life is getting busy with holiday shopping, no one else is answering me, so I decided to get past all the hectic "real" problems and come back to this with a clear head. I also don't want to risk screwing up what I already had installed.

One of the main questions that� is asked on the Support Forum is "did your host upgrade or move anything"? I actually asked my webhost this and was told they did a hardware upgrade at the time I began having problems, but that it shouldn't affect anything. Wrong!! On a whim tonight I figured what the hell and went in and changed the path on my mt.cfg file by dropping the "2" out of the home address. Presto, it suddenly works again. So I guess the moral to this story is don't believe everything your webhost tells you, they may be unaware if a path has changed slightly. The only difference I noticed in any of my related programs was I suddenly couldn't go backwards as far as I used to be able to on Fetch (back past www). Having three potential "home" addresses to choose from, I chose the plain "home/www/" and it worked.

Now if I can figure out why my Word 2001 keeps crashing on startup. It's happened before and I somehow blindly managed to fix it, but of course, I can't replicate the same repair this time, even though I swear I'm doing the same steps to fix it... OK, now I'm going to retro-post the bizarre dream that had me login to this frustrating mess to start with.