Hurrah, that obviously was the problem and this time I fixed it, but it was telling me it was the vBulletin blue. What I did this time, though, was change it to the cellar.org, then back to the blue and that worked. Weird. I think that's about the tone of my day so far, though......
thanks all.
Shawnee, I'm totally blaming you -I was following one of your links when it happened.