Yesterday morning there was a problem with the node that our service is on at our hosting site. Once they recovered we ran numerous maintenance and repair tools to combat any corruption.
everything seemed good....for a while. Then late sunday night I began receiving a lot of error reports from our hosting service.
long story short, the database had become corrupt and was becoming more and more unstable as time went on.
at around 11pm pt the site lost access to all the posts on the forum.
after trying an number of options suggested by both Jopari and the excellent tech support team at our hosting company, it became obvious that the only solution was to revert to a back up done Saturday morning.
This is a long way to explain the missing 36 hours of post. Believe me i am distraught over the lost posts.