The Ticket Comment Du Jour™:
Thanks for your help. This was truly bizarre. You'd think the people working WWW (World Wide Web) backbone would be doing top jobs now to keep their jobs, but apparently everyone was out to lunch this week.
And if you don't get why this is the Ticket Comment Du Jour™ be glad you don't work as part of the WWW backbone (but a bit more context for those interested: DNS (Domain Name Service) propagation issues).