I've spent the better part of two days editing and re-editing my templates to get everything up and running again. First I switched to dynamic publishing, then back again to static pages so I didn't lose the plugin functionality of some of my cute little features, like gravatars and favourites icons that don't work when pages are built dynamically.
I've installed MT-Akismet and MTAutoBan to help solve the spam attack problem, and included a cron-job to periodically close comments and trackbacks on older entries with a script called mt-closure.
It's all trial and error, but I now have a glimmer of hope that MT isn't so bad after all. I was becoming a very jaded blogger but my faith has been restored thanks to Timothy Appnel, of Appnel Solutions (also the author of Akismet and mt-closure).
Now that I've installed Autoban, I'm hoping this solution will fix the server overload problem that caused me all the headaches.
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