Well today got off to a great start - not!
Anyhow - thankfully it's all fixed now, and for those who didn't see my message, it seems that the server loaded up at around 5:50am following which the database server timed out.
For some reason, as yet unknown, this caused a number of the forum database tables to be marked as "crashed" and they needed to be repaired.
So we're back to normal until tonight of course when we go offline again - but this time intentionally!
Mike
