HostGator did break a whole bunch of sites totally unrelated to this one, and they admitted it. Everything that uses an .htaccess file no longer functioned, so all the .htaccess files had to be removed...which leaves all the sensitive data on those sites totally unsecured. They've admitted it was their actions that caused this, but they refuse to do anything to fix it...which I consider absolutely unconscionable. You break something, you fix it...especially when you're being paid to do so.
As for this site...I'm not quite as stupid as you probably think. I took the precaution of downloading the entire site to our local system before I uploaded the newest upgrade, so I'll simply delete what's there now and replace it with the old version. But that still doesn't solve the base problems, so it's likely we'll have to scrap the entire concept and go with something else entirely. It's a shame, because it would have done a nice job if it had worked.
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