Thanks to a MT problem ("Can't call method "id" on an undefined value at lib/MT/App/CMS.pm line 190") that I got just before I was about to go to bed, I had to stay up all night trying to figure out why I couldn't log-in. At first I thought it was because of the fact that I uploaded something to a MT folder (using "My Network Places" in Windows XP) so I tried uploading several files with several different FTP programs but after surfing the forum it seems MT has a bunch of bugs that appear more often than ..... urgh, you fill the blank. (I'm too tired to think of anything that goes along with that sentence). In the end I fixed it by accessing my cPanel> mySQL Account Maintenance> phpAdmin> Databases> myMTDatabase> "Check All"> and..... wait, this is the best part.. "Repair Table". Thank you very much. Now I think I'm gonna go visit my friend: Mr bed. Oh! G'morning guys ... zzZZzZzz

That error message is an indication of database corruption. A post to the forum before you stayed up all night would have saved you a lot of frustration, because once we realized you were using MySQL, we would have suggested that you repair the tables.

Do you use any remote clients to post to your blog? There aren't too many things internal to MT (actually, I don't know of any things offhand) that will corrupt your database like that. MySQL is usually pretty stable, which is why it was added as an option over Berkeley.

As I stated the other day in another thread - I've used MT for nearly two years now, and it's been a smooth ride the entire time - that's with both Berkeley and MySQL databases. I can't imagine I've just been extremely lucky (because if I were that lucky, I'd be a lotto winner by now).

If you're running into lots of "bugs", you might want to spend more time on the forum finding out if they really are bugs before you lose any more sleep.

I'm glad it happened (now) anyways 'cus I just started plus I'll be better prepared next time (together with my backup of exported entries, just in case )