All,
The site was temporarily down. Somehow the permissions at the root level were messed up. The problem got corrected within 3 minutes of logging a call with support. The biggest delay was in my finding out there was a problem in the first place.
Wow, for a minute, I thought that we can grow our hair long in the workplace, but were forbidden to discuss about it!-)
Oh my God me too ! I'd given up altogether since last Sunday !! I didn't know any of this till a couple of hours ago in the Library as I'd thought it was either my old PC or something I'd said or done :-(