MichaelH – on my shared host I only can see the access log, which did not mention the error.
Now the wild thing is, I spent quite some time working on the problem last night to no avail. This morning I find that the site seems to be running fine.
#update
I simply downloaded and expanded a new plugin in the plugins folder, and when I went to activate I encountered the error again. Now the error is happening frequently on my site again.
Last night I saw people with issues with PHP memory. It appears my PHP install max memory is at 32M, which seems to be quite above anyone else needed. Hrm.
