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OK, thanks for posting that. I know how frustrating it can be to support a product when something else is messing it up.

I followed your steps.

Turning off the Stat tracker plugin, and links began showing up again. They started failing after the last update, I guess in retrospect. you should probably blacklist them, if possible – at least not help promote them.

I reloaded the directories as you suggested, but was still not able to show images or you tube.

I found these lines in my php.ini;
upload_tmp_dir=”C:\tmp”
session.save_path=”C:\tmp”
error_log=”C:\tmp\php-errors.log”
cgi.force_redirect=0
extension_dir=”C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\ext”

I did not put them there. They were in a spot by themselves, with no comments. I would have never done that. I assume some plugin or chinese/russian hacker has found a way in (do they have anything else to do?).

I commented them out then received (when trying to add media);
500 – Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.

the default upload path does have proper security – so whatever added those lines, they are indeed needed? So i uncommented them and set up a c:\tmp directory and set permissions. Image uploads now worked again.

youtube video still does not – it posts as a link only, different than described (and as it worked at first).

And yes, it is the latest WP, and the latest mySQL, and the latest PHP, on the latest Windows server. Oh, and the problem above occurred maybe a day apart each, so its like a multiple day self destruct sequence. I can see things failing all at once if something is set wrong, but this almost acts like a worsening database corruption error or something.