It sounds like somehow your permissions got out of whack. You can try running this command from the mysql prompt:
SELECT U_Groups FROM w3t_Users WHERE U_Username='yourusername';
As for the invalid host problem, $config['referer'] needs to be set to the domain the scripts are running on to make sure no outside forms are used to make posts.
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