Ditto, Squeaky. Same error, been going on for hours, and there's a lot of lag happening too. Here's the error, it looks to be the same as crisiscontrol's error. Hopefully it might help somehow:
[Error: Can't locate object method "as_string" via package "Unable to contact storage server. Your picture has not been saved. at /home/lj/cgi-bin/LJ/Userpic.pm line 486 " (perhaps you forgot to load "Unable to contact storage server. Your picture has not been saved. at /home/lj/cgi-bin/LJ/Userpic.pm line 486 "?) at '/home/lj/htdocs/editpics.bml' line 518, line 125. @ earthquake.insanewebhosting.com]