I'm Back! I am finally able to publish to my site again! I made the switch to the "better" Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting package a month ago and all of the sudden I couldn't make any changes to my site in Blogger. I tried all sorts of settings, but nothing worked. So frustrating! I figured it was my slow internet (yes, I am on dial-up... that's all that is available to me in my location), so I took a break until I was able to use high speed. Faster internet didn't help either. I wrote an e-mail to Yahoo! Customer Care and received no reply... surprise! After doing a bit of searching on Google, I found some helpful advice and voila...

These are the steps I followed
Create a new FTP username and password (under small business home/"manage" tab/password manager)--then click link to grant access to whole site

In blogger's FTP settings in the FTP Username field, input new username (tho, for me it had to be [email address]) and new password.

It worked and after all that negative energy, I think I want to switch hosts and try a different blog platform. So if anyone has had success with their host or blog and would like to share.. please do. :)