this aught to teach me a lesson.  I updated the version of wordpress that I was using on my Mixed Student Resources site and some how I blew up the category file in the sequal db in the background.  eeerrrrrgggg.  At least I was able to back up the posts (which would have killed me if that hadn’t worked).  I then reinstalled the new version of wordpress and imported the posts back to the site.  Now I have to recreate my categories.

I may have to reconsider how I have my theme set up.  It is very category dependent, which at the time I liked but in lieu of this set back I may reconsider my theme and how it runs.

But again.  Rebuilding categories not the worst thing in the world, trying to rebuild all my posts might have really gotten me down.

The lesson - back up your work often!