THANK YOU for you patience...
first off, the host has relocated the mysql server data....with luck, that will solve future problems.
As we "all" know, the site went down around 12:00am CST until about 5 minutes ago....I became aware this morning about 6:15am....sent a trouble ticket in, then went to the dentist (yeah, wonderful double start to my morning...) Called the host (and got a busy signal) for a couple hours, finally got thru and left a callback number. The contacted me at 10:30am CST and were unsure of what the problem is.
Well, long story short, they STILL haven't called me back like they said they woud....and, since I can't access their ticket center from work, I had to wait until this evening to log in and discover they had moved the forum data....only to THEN discover they provided the incorrect IP information!!!!!!
IDIOTS!!
Fortunately, I "adjusted" things, had some luck, and it's back up.
Again, thanks to everyone for your patience. I DO appreciate the emails letting me know that I'm not alone!!