With school over and free time abound, I figured I would make some long overdue changes to my website. The look needed a little freshening and I wanted to expand my use of the MovableType content management system so that I could have more dynamic, interesing pages. However, in my frantic bout of deletion to make way for the new files, I deleted the MySQL database user I used to access MySQL databases. I had intended to clear everything out to make way for the new files, and after all, creating a new user requires one to click on a button. Not something terribly difficult. But I did not reckon with the somewhat archaic nature of MovableType.

Apparently, the MySQL database system changed the way it handled passwords in version 4.1.1. This alteration to MySQL entailed changes to any software wishing to work with MySQL. Unfortunately, MovableType still has not received the requisite upgrade. So, when I tried to set MovableType up on my new database - created with MySQL 4.1.1 - errors sprouted up everywhere; MovableType could not access its MySQL database.

Thus, my website is confined to this rather feeble WordPress-powered, one-entry blog, until my web host can change the MySQL password system back to the way it operated in version 4.1.