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Oh. Now I need to try re-activating plug-ins one-by-one? I bet it’s the wibya toolbar that’s causing the issue.

OK! Now commenting works. Can I change back to my custom theme? YES! That worked. Thank you for your quick and effective help!!

OK, great. Thank you. I have found the log of previous versions on Codex, but am unable to find a download other than for 3.3.1 Where can I download WP 3.2?

I was actually able to recover my backups (the hosting company helped me) and revert to WordPress 3.1.3 and hyperlinks are working fine. I did lose two posts and a draft, but managed to reclaim 3+ months of SEO work – yay! However, I do NOT want to update to 3.3.1 because the compatibility with many of my plug-ins is not guaranteed.
How do you suggest I proceed?

I’ve uploaded and activated it. deactivated all other plugins and changed to 2012. Still not hyperlink possible, same error.

There is no backup. I did it wrong. They advised that I should wait until there is another WP update and see if it fixes the problem. Otherwise, I have made a backup of the database (as of today) and I think I’ll need to start with a “new” WordPress. Do you see any other solution? Ugh.

I’m sorry if that came off as snippy. That was not my intent. I apologize that I misunderstood your question. I was honestly just trying to suggest something to save us both time.
Ugh…it’s actually saying that there are no tables for that database. All this time I’ve been backing up databases hasn’t worked. I’m going to call my hosting company and see what can be done.
Thank you for your help.

You already asked me to do that this morning. It says: 19470 Maybe you can read back through the discussion we’ve been having so we don’t repeat steps?

Yes.

Not sure we’ve tried repairing the database. This has been happening since I updated to 3.3.1 a week ago today. I had not updated for a few months, so I don’t know what version we updated from.

Yes. It says: 19470

Also tried on Chrome. Still having the problem. I’ve switched the theme back because I don’t want my readers to be confused. Please advise. Thank you!

Thanks for replying. I’ve changed the theme to Twenty Twelve and reset plug-ins, then tried on two different machines using Safari and Firefox. Still get the same “Are you sure” error.

I switched everything back because I 1) didn’t want the theme up there for too long for branding/identity purposes and 2) Akismet deactivated results in at least one spam post per minute.
I have changed the theme and deactivated all plug-ins. However, I followed your last direction and still have the hyperlink problem I describe in the beginning.

This post is not updating, so I don’t know if esmi is seeing my response…