For the most part, I have now re-installed all the plugins that are needed for the blog to retain full functionality. Most notably for you guys, the ‘nice’ permalink structure (ie not the ?p=xx that is the Wordpress default), will allow you to go directly to a particular function without having to find the link to it:
POSTURL/print will display a printer-friendly version of the article (e.g. http://davidarussell.co.uk/2005/06/12/what-a-game-demo/print if you want to print that immensely long BF2 article i wrote yesterday. Sorry, my server has now taken a dislike to the mod_rewrite for this one for some reason, so you’ll just have to use the ‘printable version’ links on the posts themselves- POSTURL/trackback is, strangely enough, the trackback URL. Before I installed the plugin to do this, trackbacks still used the old permalink format (so it was difficult to remember what article the trackback referred to). As well as being better, these are also more spam-proof (spambots tend to send trackbacks to wp_trackback.php?p=xx, just incrementing xx every time until they get to the end. this stops them from being able to do that)