The theme this site uses was recently updated, so I installed the update thinking that it would just overwrite the old files and leave other things alone. Shows me what I know. It got rid of the rotating images I loaded. (apparently when updating the theme it deletes the old theme files and writes the new ones.) Because I’m a moron I didn’t have those files backed up, so I’ll have to recreate them and reload them when I get home tonight.

Moral of the story: don’t assume you know how something is going to work unless you actually know how it’s going to work and always make a backup.

For now, enjoy the default images.