I tried updating to the new version of WordPress and it told me I needed to upgrade to MySQL 5.0. I thought I was already on 5.0, but that's moot now. I went in, set up  5.0 and then got a lovely error that my SQL server wasn't running. I went into my WordPress PHP settings and corrected the server settings. Then WP decided I needed to reinstall. It deleted all my posts, comments, widget settings–basically everything–since 2009. Oddly enough, all my themes and plugins were still installed. After fidgeting around for an hour, setting up my widgets and using Google cache to look up my old blog posts, I decided I didn't really lose much, save for a bunch of fattening fudge recipes (all of which I have documented on my hard-drive anyhow). My last posts before the one I did showing my new book cover was from September 2010, for a fundraiser that was long past over.

Oh well, you live and learn, right?