“The Yahoo shortcuts plugin is having difficulty contacting Yahoo”

I am having this exact same problem with the plugin myself. I have not had the time to track down the issue or the source; for now I have disabled the plugin. But I’d like to try it out again at some point. I get the error “Could not contact Yahoo.” on the sidebar widget and clicking the button pops up the same error chipbennett got. Error is consistent for over a week, all the time.