The problem arose when a change took place when admin Was logged in and changed something in the ‘Manage Pages’ Area. But this is not clear. The point is that strange characters show up in text fields and drop downs are reset to the top position in the ‘Options Settings’ area. These have had the affect of making the formatting all wrong, and settings are being ignored. When changes are made in the ‘Options Settings’ area, back to The proper settings, with no strange characters, and the page Is loaded (in a different window), no changes have been made in the site. Indeed, when, in the admin area, one goes to a different Page and back to the ‘Options Settings’ page, all values are reset Back to the bogus ones. The following pages demonstrate, plus I have printed out the contents Of the options_theme_settings var in the wp_1_options table.

This is the MySQL state: mysql> SELECT * FROM wp_1_options where option_id = 107\G *************************** 1. row *************************** option_id: 107 blog_id: 0 option_name: options_theme_settings option_value: Options Theme ";} autoload: yes 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql>

The next 3 Pages show The state of The ‘Settings’ Page.

This is What the Site looks Like with Those Settings.

This and the Next page Show what It looks like After I go Through And change All of the Settings back To what they Should be. And what they Were in the Beginning, and What worked Very well, and What we wanted, Etc. etc. before This strange Error took Place!

So, when all of these changes are made, that is, clicking the ‘Update Settings’ button for each section, when I go back to view each set, they are all fine. The Changes only happen when I navigate away and come back. This is MySQL Before any navigating away and after the ‘Update Settings’ buttons were pushed: mysql> SELECT * FROM wp_1_options where option_id = 107\G *************************** 1. row *************************** option_id: 107 blog_id: 0 option_name: options_theme_settings option_value: Options Theme ";} autoload: yes 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

And this Is what the Pages look like

And this is the state of mysql after I navigate once away. That is, I clicked the Link ‘Themes’ from the ‘Options Settings’ page, and went immediately back. mysql> SELECT * FROM wp_1_options where option_id = 107\G *************************** 1. row *************************** option_id: 107 blog_id: 0 option_name: options_theme_settings option_value: Options Theme ";} autoload: yes 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

And the Pages…