I remember the October 30th 2003 problem!  Every single image uploaded on the entire site showed over 1500 hits...some over 9000, within minutes of being uploaded.  We especially noticed it in Fractals where getting 50-100 views is a lot!  The programmers couldnt recover the correct stats, so they just subtracted some arbitrary number from all the images, but it completely skewed the 'most viewed' stats for Fractals and had lots of people in a tizzy.  It never got resolved, but many fractalists, mindful of fair play, deleted those images with high counts.  Lots of fractalists never knew about it.

I hope that helps about that problem.

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!