It's always something...

The sysadmins got back to me and agreed that an update they'd done had broken my captchas, and that they were planning to do another cpanel update that would fix it by the end of the week.  So this is a good thing! Hurrah!

Except I wake up this morning only to discover a whole stack of spam comments in my blog.  Upon investigation it seems that now the Image::Magick perl module isn't there.  *sigh*

So hopefully this fix will come soon, because a tonne of spam is much worse than no comments at all.. :(
(on a lighter note, at least anyone can leave comments at the moment...)