Well I installed a newer version of dasBlog which has better error handling when using the Akismet spam blocking service.
As of right now things seem to be working with them again, I sent them a network sniff of a failure last night.
I still haven’t been able to reproduce or fix the Firefox 2.x problem. For now the solution seems to be use a different browser, I don’t like the solution but it is the only one I have at present.
—– Rom