I originally posted this on Wordpress's forum, but no reply in almost 2 days. I don't believe this is a Montezuma thing, but it appears to have originated when tried to do the patch around editing the Theme's admin>options>650_sub_templates.php file which I did on my live site and locally. I musta fat-fingered something on the local files b/c now I have some stray code appearing just below the admin bar. I replaced all of the admin>options files from the original theme's files, and even replaced everything from root wp-admin but no avail.

Being a local version of the site, I wouldn't care about the superficial stray code on the admin side, but I'm now finding when I try to update a page, I get no result except for a blank screen with nothing but that Bud1%...code appearing

2 images as samples:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coolpil...in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coolpil...n/photostream/

Apologies if this is unrelated to Montezuma, but y'never know. It may also be a MAMP thing for all I know.

I don't see any weird code, did the pictures get truncated?

Do you see this in the front-end or just the backend?
what happens in the front-end if you are not logged in?

DOH! wrong link (from another query I posted here)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coolpillows/8465830375/

are you on a mac?

it seems it it is caused by a .DS_Store file see this link

yes i am on a mac

Get a copy of tinkertools you can use it to see invisable files and check for a ds_store file

Will look into it. I know of ds_store files on Mac, usually artifacts from Adobe apps or something. Not sure what I'm looking for but will be in touch.

embarrassingly easy to fix. why didn't i look up BUD1% in Google and then figure it out myself.

sorry to bug you...back to work!