I didn’t hear back from Dreamhost, but disabling the Memcached drop-in plugin by renaming wp-content/object-cache.php to object-cache.php.off worked for me, everything seems fine again. If you’d like me to send you more information about my Dreampress setup with them, let me know.
Thanks again for your quick response and also for your work on this plugin.
– Eric
It looks like the host (Dreampress) installed memcached (http://wordpress.org/plugins/memcached/) around the same time, I’m wondering if that’s the issue, I’ve contacted them to see how I should go about disabling that plugin to see if that’s the cause of the problem.
Thanks for the response,
– Eric