i just redid the site and everything is functioning. its possible that wordpress just got tricked into going into maintenance mode or something. there are a few things i found online that might have been the issue, but no time to waste. no need to continue this thread unless someone else needs...
Not sure where this post should go. We installed Plesk about two weeks ago and everything was fine until yesterday. I was busy putting up a new wordpress installation through Plesk's custom method, while another day old wordpress installation was logged in. (I'm not sure if that's where this...