Our SSL cert. for the admin interface had expired and it's fixed now. While we got the cert. renewed (which we should have done earlier, had we gotted an e-mail from GeoTrust .. like we get for all our other certs from GeoTrust), we did a temp. workaround for the admin interface to load the content from main server .. however, due to an ID ten T error [google it ] that did not work.
Anyway, everything is groovy now. Sorry about this hiccup.