Thanks for responding Anna, but I still have this issue.
I believe in this instance it was a browser cache issue. though I'm still having a bit of trouble viewing my wordpress install so I'm scrapping it and trying it again.
I keep failing to get the home page of my wordpress install when going to my URL verdant.x10.bz because the browser says verdant.x10.bz/cgi-sys/.x10hosting.com is not found which results in a 404 error. Basically something has happened to my root folder so that it won't look for an index page...