I just got done with a Live Learning Web cast for AppDev on User Profiles and My Sites and it’s hard to imagine how it could possibly have been worse. I had serious machine issues for the first 30 minutes and couldn’t get my profile import configuration to save. I kept getting an error message about connecting to the database on the profile configuration screen. This was very strange as everything else seemed to be working – I’d expect the Shared Services Administration site to fail completely if the database server was borked.