Earlier today I was messing with the hotlink protection in my CPanel and toggled it off and on... unfortunately doing that broke the permalinks in all of my Wordpress blogs The main page of each blog was fine, but when I went to look at the individual posts they were gone! Apparently a line in .htaccess got removed when I was messing around. Fortunately the technician at HostGator got me up and running in just a few minutes. The moral of the story: be careful screwing around with things just because you're curious! Brian
Haahahaha i never know that playing with Hot link protection can cause trouble like that. Thanks for the info.
If I am not mistaken what it does is re-writes your .htaccess file. So if you change it, you will just need to rebuild your .htaccess file with the permalink re-write rules. So really it doesnt have to be on, you just need to be prepared to chang your .htaccess file if you change it's settings.