I know, Lisa's been putting up with us for (how many?) five or six days now. Gotta love her. Have you noticed that all the MALE moderators have been hidding! Just kidding...love those guys too.
This must be some sort of serious problem to fix. However, when it first happened, I followed the links to (I forget the name of the provider) and found "the fix" to the exclamation point bug. It seems like all one had to do was look in a file and delete "!"'s. I don't know....maybe it's more complicated than that?
I'm sure there's nothing our fearless Webmaster Alex can't handle though........if only he would.