Wow, after what seemed like forever (at least to me) I managed to get the blog back up and running. Not sure what exactly happened, might have been the host changing some servers around, may have been a plugin for WordPress not playing nice, but I’m back.
The boring part is I am much more adept now with the wp-config files, changing passwords and user names in a MySQL database and doing general blog troubleshooting. Also on the positive side I do have a backup of everything, but if I had to restore it would have been days before I would be back up, so thanks to figaro and his great videos walking folks through “error establishing a database connection” headaches. You probably don’t want to follow the link unless you have a blog and want some technical info on fixing database problems, but it’s there if you do!
Also, thanks to everyone who emailed me to tell me about the problem!