problem

No key combination is working for me to recover:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

It happens to other people:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/58412/why-is-ubuntu-unity-freezing-up-on-me-sometimes

Many other people:

Access denied on node creation form | Open Atrium Community
https://community.openatrium.com/node/1686

"Access Denied" to User 1 consistently | Open Atrium Community
https://community.openatrium.com/node/1766

So if you've found this you may as well get yourself a cookie now, in fact go and grab a whole box, and you can eat them in bed too, because after you read this your life will change.

Well, at least if you're trying to make WAMPServer run in Windows Vista

Enough talk, here is the crucial info you need, and as you read what is below and eventually get wamp working, know in your heart that you did it The Agaric Way...

Step 1 - find this file
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Step 2 - open it

Step 3 - eat a cookie, you deserve it

[Update: Newer versions of the attached below are available. Ask.]

The request came in this form, from my co-Collective member Dan, responding to a call from the executive director of Amazing Things Arts Center:

he said some people forgot what their username was on the site, and now when they're trying to make new accounts it says "email already registered' blah blah blah...

Annoying.