The twitter update says it all:
johnlacey in one single act of FTP, managed to update the wordpress files properly; able to blog again!!! [All rejoice!] about 1 hour ago from web
My public blog works again. I can update. Without any of the heartache I was anticipating. ALL REJOICE!!!!!!
I feel like updating it right now, but I am much too tired to write. Tomorrow is another glorious day.
The files updating properly have saved me literally hours and hours (potentially days) of repetitive work. This is such a wonderful development.
Now.. BED! Goodnight y'all.