Finally my DNN site was coming together, really starting to take shape, then, I installed the "required" update for DNN, 6.0 I think,(w/godaddy.com) and my site worked at first except for the login page which was all jumbled and caused a crash when I tried to login... now I cannot access the DNN site at all. (also, a rollback did not help and re-updating was unsuccesful)

Further-more the web.config file is perpetually being used by another process, so it can not be edited, over-written, deleted etc.  This, I believe, is also the reason I cannot BU the SQL Db, the attempt is repeatedly unsuccessful.

Firstly, fyi, I am a DNN amateur at best, learning as I go…
1) Is there a way to unlock the web.config file?
2) Before updating, I used an “app_offline.htm” file to down the site and backed-up all dnn
    folders through an ftp… did the Db and all my pages get saved this way?  
   (as indicated per a DNN video on backups)
3) Can I use the fore-mentioned bu to restore a DNN reload?
4) basically, how can I save a Year and a half of work?

to see std err msg:
http://myeldersource.org/active

~tgl