Well, that was fun.  I’ve been having some issues recently with a couple of my WordPress installations.  In a nutshell, every form that has anything to with communication to the database was choking.  Data wasn’t being saved to the database, screens weren’t loading properly, functions weren’t… functioning.  It took me a little while of searching (and no little amount of stress and worry) but I finally stumbled across a solution that just felt right.  I’ve been using Bad Behavior for awhile now in conjunction with Akismet to catch and filter out spam.  Between the two, they’ve done a fabulous job, making it a rare occurrence when even a single spam item slips through the cracks. 

Unfortunately, apparently Bad Behavior has failed before, prompting an upgrade from 2.0.7 to the current version of 2.0.10.  Trouble is, now 2.0.10 is malfunctioning and it blocking all scripts that had anything to do with communicating with the database.  My guess is that something has gone wrong with Bad Behavior servers, potentially causing some sort of “feedback” loop.  I – and a couple of others – have left comments notifying the author of the problem, so hopefully we’ll see a new version released in the near future.  In the meantime, problem solved and everything seems to be functioning properly again.