After many emails with StartLogic, their technical support finally determined that two tables from my blog's MySQL database up and disappeared. This means that my only option was to restore from a backup. Fortunately, I created a backup back when I was first having problems, but before the errant tables decided to run off together. This means that I was able to restore almost everything.
In fact, the only thing I ended up losing was two blog posts I posted during the window when everything seemed to be okay again. The good news about that is that they are both posts I also put up on Multiply. So I didn't lose anything.
I apologize for how long it took to resolve the problems. I hope to be back up and running at full capacity soon.
Oh, and as a sidenote, apparently if you need to restore from an old backup of you MT database, you're better off dropping all the tables from the database first. I skipped that step in my first attempt to do a restore and got nothing but grief as a result.
Glad to see you back. Your method of blogging seems to be a lot more complicated than mine.
Thanks, Adam. The only complication is that I've installed the blogging software I use myself and am responsible for maintaining it.
Usually, everything runs smoothly and my blogging experience is perfectly similar to yours over on Blogger. However, in the rare case that something (like the database) gets screwed up, things become more complex. Over at Blogger, the Blogger techs take care of those kinds of problems for you.