Yes I smell a Wumpus . …
Gremlins beware.
UPDATE: We are getting closer to the Wumpus. Turn east wordpress is not closing database connections, turn north -Geocities will not let you see your htaccess file, turn south Yahoo has a problem with an extra line added to htaccess files, turning west – we will upgrade wordpress from 2.1 to 2.1.1 if this does not work —- geocities will loose an account – I know like they care!
UPDATE2: We have now updated WordPress from 2.1 to 2.1.1 and deleted everything from our host server and put it all back up there again.