Back To The Future Again 
So I am guessing that the grand wordpress experiment is over. My current gripe list:
- insufficient MySQL on tera-byte.com
- gratuitous theme problems
- and now the whole web server on xdroop.com seems to have crashed after I attempted to comment on one of my own articles.
So that's it -- I've had it. Back to SnipSnap. Once we get the xdroop.com stuff sorted I'll probably try to move the articles back here and turn WordPress off completely.