It turned out that the upgrade did not solve the problem as it was header.php in my theme that was modified to include a <u> element with display:none that included a long list of bad links. (see excerpt at http://www.pastie.org/223173 ).
I assume it happened via sql injection that I hope had been resolved in WordPress 2.5.1
A few weeks ago I installed the “Share This” Plugin by Alex King on this web site. I thought it maybe nice to have this work on the main site for the various song lists. What I really liked was that it was a javascript pop-up that also worked when javascript was off via a dedicated page.
I’ve done a fairly dirty conversion to rails. The original used the Wordpress internal code to call the mailer so I’ve added a controller to call ActionMailer, the same controller is responsible for the non-javascript page. As usual most of the time went into layout and CSS issues 
Maybe sometime I’ll clean it up and re-release it as a rails generator, but we’ll see if I get to it - I am drowning with lots of things to do.
It’s official - Song List is part of web 2.0. I’ve been slashdotted here. The torrent was hard to withstand… a total of 10 hits! Nonetheless - a milestone.
I have interest in seeing how the site is being used. The logs and google analytics give a very nice snapshot of that. What I don’t get is visibility to the clicks to external sites. With Google Analytics you can instrument click-outs but you need to add Onclick javascript code to each link.
So.. I added a level of indirection. Now when the users click on an online music store icon - it comes back to the Song List controller. For example:
http://www.song-list.net/mp3/itunes/949650/949525
The MP3 action then redirects to the appropriate music library (in this case itunes). I keep all the neccesary information in the url so the controller doesn’t need to do a database call. I’ve seen some shopping sites do the same only the real link is transmitted via a key - requiring a DB call, and taking much more time.
Now I can see in the logs which music libraries get clicked more often (answer: so far it is Rhapsody).
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