I figured out my problem with my offline blog editor ecto. I had to totally blow away any reference to ecto on my individual profile. I learned this by setting up a new profile and had ecto work just fine. Now I feel kind of dumb having put a question on their message boards, but why did this happen???
I am just happy I am online again. Now I hope my memory holds up and I remember what I wanted to write about all week. On the bright side I downloaded the newer version of the software and it has some cool and not so cool new features.