No, of course I didn't "accidentally" (or purposely) ban you. If I had, you would have received a message that said you were banned, not some goofy server error. Ask Brian or Wes what those messages look like. I think they have seen them about 1000 times each. Plus, you would have stayed banned even after doing your system restore.
As for me not replying to your email, I never got it. I'll check my spam folder right now. Hmmm - I don't see it. Can you tell me exactly when you sent it or what the Subject line was or something to help me locate it? I want to make sure I add your email address as a "friend" so this doesn't happen again. Feel free to PM me if you don't want to post that stuff here.
And for this to happen for 3 days until you did a system restore - that's REALLY goofy.
Also, I assume you couldn't even get to and not ONLY , correct? If you were banned, you'd only be banned from the forum, of course, and not the entire site.
P.S. Glad to hear you and New Guy are hitting it off. He's a good guy and shabi could probably use a break.
Then again, if he really was a "good guy," you would think he would have at least alerted me (or the rest of the forum) of your problem... Hmmmmm.....