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Thanks so much stvwlf. I was thinking about what you said all day and temporarily put the twenty ten theme on and shut all my plugins off. then I tweeked the page a little and turned each plugin back on after each tweek. same thing. Then I searched my brain and came up with a thought..since the problem happened after i deleted that picture (that refused to be deleted in the normal way) that it might have something to do with it after all (but I dont know why unless it had a malicious code in it somehow) so I opened that page back up and found the html code from the deleted pic was still there, so I deleted the code. That seemed to do it, then i went back to some other pages to tweek and they are all back to normal. since I deleted the leftover html I now have no idea if it affected the whole site or if it was a page specific problem. If anyone else has experienced this same problem, try what stvwlf suggested and what i suggested, or both options. Wierd. oh well, at least with each problem that comes up, we become better at solving problems for the next hurdle that always seems to pop up. Happy blogging.