ALJ

Sorry to not bring a solution, but I wanted to weigh in that I’m seeing the same problem.

The “Internal Server Error” only happens on the live WP site (running 2.9), not my local development machine. It’s also rare and intermittent. It sometimes happens when posting, maybe about one in 10 posts.

I’ve also seen it happen once or twice as an external user just browsing blog posts, which is a bit scary.

-ALJ

I had the same problem running WP 2.9 while trying to import a 1.8 MB XML file. I finally got everything imported by:

1. Breaking the XML file into several 400 KB chunks
2. After having all tags and categories imported, I removed them from subsequent XML files to import

Basically, try cutting your file sizes down a lot. If you want to go extreme, try importing a one-post XML file to see if that works.

-ALJ