After some more time to examine it, I don’t think that is what caused it, that is just the time frame I noticed it. After a little more time to experiment, I think the problem has to do with Firefox doing some weird caching of the icons used in the subpanel.
To answer your question though, I did not make any changes to the files from technorati. They do ask for a database name and password to verify that you own your site(wasn’t crazy about this). After that I not only changed my WP login but also my db login and password.
If clearing my cache fixes the problem, I can deal with that. Like you said, probably not a bug, just my wacky computer. Thanks for the response.
Now this is happening all the time, was this fixed in the recent wordpress version?
More info: This seems to happen after I save a post and it says post saved at the top of the page. When I clicked on write post, it went back to normal.
