[wp-testers] Strange issue

[Shelly]

 >>How about the actual database files? Do all the files have  
appropriate ownership and write privileges to allow MySQL to modify  
those tables?<<

Yes, if I'm reading your question correctly.

I also just tried something - I redid ALL the file permissions on the  
server - first I set *everything* to 777, and then changed them back  
so files were 644 and folders were 755 (just to be sure I didn't miss  
anything when I checked the first few times :) ) so now everything is  
100% as it should be - and I still can't edit/create anything.

For the record, the host has also rebuilt Apache for me as well,  
hoping that would fix the issue.  It didn't.

I *can* say that I upgraded to 2.6.1 to see if that would fix the  
issue (originally it was running 2.5.1 when this started happening),  
but I've noticed that some of the other people that are reporting this  
happening have said it starts when they upgrade - to 2.6 is what most  
are saying (but mine was happening at 2.5, so I don't follow in that  
line, I guess).  However, I'm wondering if it's possible that  
something in 2.6 is conflicting with the other test installations I've  
done.  I know it sounds insane, but I'm starting to wonder if I  
completely delete all the files, and re-upload 2.5, and put back in  
the 2.5 database, if that might work.  For my tests, I still have the  
current 2.6 running - but I put the new "test" installations in other  
subfolders.

It's totally bizarre to think that might solve the problem, but I  
seriously have tried everything I can think of, and things people have  
suggested through google searched, et al...

~Shelly