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Hervé, thanks for the quick response.
I went into phpmyadmin and looked at the tables, I saw that xoops_stories was "in use", a state I've never seen before. This is a test server, so I just nuked the tables and reinstalled News. Everything was working great.
Then I broke it again.
I have two users, one that has permission to create news articles and the webmaster, who can approve articles. I logged in as the webmaster, wrote a news article and approved it. Everything was fine.
When I use the other account (who can't approve articles) to create a news post and then logged in as the webmaster to approve it, the xoops_stories table got stuck in the weird "in use" state.
I can provide any info you might need, template details, MySQL&PHP versions, my shoe size, whatever...
Thanks,
Lee