sounds like a more of a browser issue that a forum issue - like cookies got disabled for a time. to login, or to be automatically recognized, you must have cookies enabled.

during the "repair" of whatever it was, perhaps the existing cookies were deleted AND cookies disabled. new passwords would still not work...

unless at some point someone - hubby? - realized what was happening (either because of your problem or because he had similar navigation problems) and reenabled cookies around the same time you got the new password.

that is my hypothesis.

~ waves ~