It was those goshdarn Russians!
Commie pinkos! Can't trust 'em!
Seriously, I'm not very computer savvy and one night when I logged in the topics had all been
reset, people were having trouble starting new topics, old ones had taken the place of newer
ones, and everything was generally topsy-turvy, but I guess the server was resetting or some such technicality and the next day everything was back to normal, for reasons beyond my
limited techinical understanding.
Either that, or the 'shrooms were kicking in and I was caught in a wormhole time-warp type
thingamajig.