We had a major server failure earlier today, the one that the Store and the Forums run on. The main site server is completely seperate. This is why a number of people had difficulty logging on and then there was no access at all.
We are now up and running again (the Forum, not the Store (yet)) on a new machine.
Unfortunately the backup file is from Wednesday evening, so about 12 hours of postings have been lost. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Michael