I can publish to the blog just fine with a Vista laptop and an XP desktop PC, posts usually show up *immediately*.

I will try the deletion of the file you suggest.......then if that fails will try a reinstall of WordPy.

(it's about an hour since the last Test post, and it hasn't shown up on the blog, so I doubt it ever will.)

BTW: after deleting the conf directory it was impossible to start WordPy by itself or through x-term. Got a whole bunch of errors in x-term.
i just uninstalled WordPy and will try again.