After tooling around with this blog nonsense, both the private one and this one here, decided to go ahead and update the server. oh boy, did fun then ensue.
first apache wouldn’t come back up for nothing. turns out the service pack installs the latest multiprocessor version which the old bastard i have just doesn’t know how to deal with. so i installed the uni-processor version.
after that i completely fubar’d the web interface to our email.
my solution? why, we’ll just apply the latest service pack to that silly thang.
anyway, long story short, 48 hours later i got working blogs.