I haven’t posted here in over a year. Here’s my excuse: My webhost upgraded their servers to the latest version of PHP, which was incompatible with the (seriously out-of-date) version of WordPress I was using. They were able to recompile my database to work with PHP 5.3, but if I posted anything, WordPress broke the database again.
Since my version of WordPress predated the automatic updater (by several versions), this meant a tedious, and time-consuming manual update.
Anyway, several failed attempts later, here we are. There are still a few glitches I need to work out, but overall things seem to to be working okay.