Sorry to all who may have noticed the blog went offline right after my last post, and although it is back now, my custom template has been lost.
Although the front end of my blog appeared as it should, the back end that I see, had some errors. So I decided to fix the errors and make my blogging efforts a little easier on myself. I also decided I would upgrade the whole system to the latest release of MT.
In doing so I discovered I could not install MT4, even though my server has everything I need and passes all checks. So after messing around with it, I decided to revert back to this version. After the reversion, I updated the database as well. All went well, except my custom template seems to have been wiped out. So I will have to either go back into my files and re-upload the CSS files, or build a whole new template.
But the blog is here at least, so no rush.