Strangely the problem occured again this morning. This time I did the following:

uploaded the memberslist.cgi from a backup

rebuilt the member data (which wasnt done yesturday)

edited my lastnumber.cgi and lastused ??? something like that. All of the files related to the member count were not matching. Even after meta rebuild the counts werent accurate. The usednumber and lastnumber were something like 50 less than the actual members count and members files count.

Another thing I noticed is that my usednamelist file has many of the members listed twice. Like this:

joeschmo
joeschmo
waltrman
waltrman

Dont know if thats a problem. The list appears to match the names of the members but I cant get an accurate word count (also member count) within this file because some names are not duplicated