Ok, I found out what happened to the posts. The bug issue that mucked everything up lasted about 14 minutes. To clear everything out, and the bug too, John Rob deleted every post that happened in those 14 minutes. :-)
AM - never mind, I figured it out. :-) (Ok, so I really just went and read the yahoo site, but still... )
I find it rather hard to believe that it only lasted 14 minutes.