cuz i'm a dufus sometimes...
yesterday i messed up my main user permission setting for my blog, which resulted in me not being able to access and edit anything on my blog, except for adding new entries. i spent last night and this afternoon pleading for help at movabletype's support forums, and reading thru many threads to see if anybody ever encountered this problem. i found, and was offered, several different solutions, which i tried one by one with no avail.
i was at the end of my wits just a few hours ago, and was about ready to kill someone, when it suddenly dawned on me, that probably the cgi file i run on my server (that was supposed to fix the problem but kept throwing an internal server error message instead) got messed up after the upload, even though i made sure i uploaded it as ascii. so i downloaded the file and checked. well, there it was... all the blank spaces on the document were replaced by the [∑] sign. wtf??!! so i deleted all the blank spaces, re-upload, and re-run. voila! it worked like magic! now i'm back to being a happy blogger! :)
oh, and check out wendy's new site; "the compilation of things too good to go unnoticed."