All we can tell so far is that some database tables became corrupted. It’s not clear why this would have wiped out prior data like that. If someone (our ISP) restored the db from a prior version, that is news to us.
We have fixed the corrupted tables and are trying to find out why the data would have disappeared and whether it can be recovered. Many apologies to the people whose posts were lost. We will try to get them back but I have a feeling they may be lost for good.
brooke
PS – We are back from vacation and Rich will have some new content up soon.