This is the danger of leaving your blog unattended for weeks at a time…
Suffered an attack from the “WordPress Worm” recently. After trying a few manual repairs to the database and file system, I lost confidence and decided to reinstall the blog from scratch.
Now the downside of this is that you can only backup the .xml content of the site, not the admin settings. So my (admittedly few) tweaks are gone. And I can’t remember exactly what I had tweaked! It doesn’t help that I didn’t backup the site before re-installing it. Oops!!
So the site is now more or less a clean slate. I will try and repair the broken links and pictures as and when I can. The good news is that the site (now on version 2.8.4 rather than the hacked 2.8.1) should be secure until the next bored Russian geek tries to exploit it. 