We had the same issue, renamed the plugin folder and we’re back up.
Webgardengeek, I’m curious… we get a lot fewer pages views than you and have played with a dev/test site, with those kind of page views you get I’m surprised you don’t have a dev/test version where you first patch… we’re kind of new to WP, is it cost or amount of time to maintain a test site that keeps you from doing that?
or is the rolling back of an update so easy it’s just not warranted in your case? As we architect the next version of our sites we’ll need to incorporate a dev/test/staging environment.