Could it have anything to do with the Columnar Display that I installed? (there was a sql patch as well as a few other files)

It was working fine with it, but I believe it was after the change in the admin section that it messed up. I was trying to remember if I had changed any core files - but I don't remember messing with any of those. I even have done a fresh install so I wouldn't have changed any of the core installs - just the template files - and it still isn't working properly...so maybe it was a template file I messed up as well... I might be rambling a bit - but trying to go through everything in my head that I did to replicate the error...

Ahh!