As you can see, there’s an oddity with various of my WordPress posts. This is due to an apparent incompatibility or bug when upgrading from a MySQL 4 database to a MySQL 5 database.
All of this hooplah was precipitated when I attempted to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. WordPress told me, as it did to many, many others, that my version of MySQL was outdated and that I had to update. When I contacted my host about this, they basically told me that my only hope was to update to a new hosting package that supported a later version of MySQL. Fortunately, I was able to do this without incurring any additional hosting costs (and actually the package I switched to is rather feature rich). In any event, I exported my MySQL 4 database into a newly-created MySQL 5 database, made some configuration changes, and was able to successfully update WordPress. However, upon viewing my newly-updated WordPress blog, I discovered the odd “junk” that you now see.
I’m sure a person more skilled in the ways of MySQL could fix this problem in their sleep, but unfortunately I am not that person. So, if you have any thoughts on how to fix this problem, feel free to let me know in a comment. 