After yesterday's whining about how bad things were...
We actually were able to catch the guy who stole my wife's rings...and convince him to give them back...all in about 1/2 hour's time.
It turns out my inability to delete dasBlog entries was a 'permissions' problem...it seems pretty obvious (now) that the worker processes used by the application would need 'delete' permissions on the file system before I can delete entries.