Frequent visitors to my site will have noticed that it has been down for some time. This was due to my misconfiguration of the devel module, whose database statistics function eventually brought the site to its knees. The query statistics actually ended up taking up about ten times as much space as the rest of the content in the database (which includes all text but no graphics, plus the information that explains how the data interrelates.)
During this period drupal 5.0 was released. This version makes many substantial changes to the way drupal operates. After a fun and exciting upgrade process (users of cck may have issues, or may not) I seem to have everything working - at least, everything that's going to work without major code changes.
Notably, img_assist (the module responsible for image links on the site) goes to a different page when you try to insert an image, and acidfree doesn't work at all (at least on my site) even though there were no errors during the database update. Thus existing pages with acidfree images will have a little text tag in them until acidfree is fixed; since I can't insert an image from img_assist (although I could make the image tags manually if I wanted) they'll stay that way until at least img_assist is updated, and likely until both image management systems are working.
Also, the theme is going to look stupid until I adapt the old one to drupal 5.0. Sorry.
In general drupal 5 is a major upgrade and most modules have finally been ported. The automotive technology book and drinking games are both working fine, and that's the majority of the reason for the site to exist (not to mention the amazon associate links, of course.) Things are bound to look a little weird. Sorry.