I’m not sure why, but on Tuesday a couple things happened.

1. A database permissions table was corrupted and restored from backup.

2. Several files had their permissions reset.

I contacted hostrocket but only got an explanation on the first. There was no reason given for the second problem. The wife and I host 4 different websites with multiple subdomains off of the one account (one of the excellent features of hostrocket) but fortunately the only new site/database was this one. That means that the backup was only missing permissions for this blog. I was able to restore that quickly.