Well folks, it looks like my love affair with Wordpress has ended.
I'm tired of 'content encoding errors' and other b.s. whenever WP decides to be a shit. I may or may not use it for blog posts, but I'm leaning toward 'no'.  Sure, I'll have to manually code and upload all my changes without the benefit of an online interface, but there is always just too many problems with this platform for me to invest any more energy into it.  
I'll post more when I make my decision. 