THAT WAS IT!!! WooHoo! Thanks so much!!!!
In case anyone else needs to know...
(finding /private/etc/hosts was a little tricky... in the finder, choose goto. In the dialog box type "/private/etc" and then you can navigate to the hosts file, and edit it in a text editor program)
I'm using safari 4.0.5.
Deleted all ScrapMatters bookmarks. Still get the error.
If I type in www.scrapMatters.com I get the right site. Then randomly as I'm navigating around in the store, gallery, forum, x-cart, etc. I get the error.
About 15 months ago the website I spend most of the day monitoring changed servers. For some reason after the server switch I still got the "upgrading" message. After several conversations with my ISP and the site's IT guy, my ISP had me "program" the new IP address into my desktop (PC) and...