CFC Madness » Where's The Damned Component?

Okay, So I might be a bit frustrated here ... I have had ongoing issues with CFC's at HostMySite, and I can't for the life of me find the root cause to my dilemma. If someone could give me a clue ... I would really appreciate it. My problem follows ...

I have shared hosting accounts with HostMySite for my CF sites. A few months back I attempted to work with the CFlickr CFC on my blog ... However, after a few days of being in operation, I started to receive errors stating that ...

" The value of the Function Foo is not of type components.someComponent. "

After working with tech support for a few days, our first guess was that there was a mapping issue with the CFC, and that we just needed to update the mappings ... after checking the mappings several times, reinstalling the component several times, and having support finally tell me that "there must be something wrong with the code", I abandoned the project feeling a bit ... beaten.

Recently I created a feed aggregator based on the same code from ColdFusionBloggers ... For several weeks the site ran fine ... no problems. But recently, I tried to login to the admin area ... and I started to receive errors by email that were strikingly similar to the errors I had with the CFlikr CFC. This time I'm getting ...

" The value returned from the getComponent function is not of type components.entries "

So, I contacted tech support, only to hear the familiar lines ... "We'll create a ticket ... and call you when we know something ... " Which usually means I'll have to figure it out for myself. Now, I don't quite understand why a component would just stop working without any changes to it ... but I'm starting to think that this issue is not something that I caused. If there's a CFer out there that has had a similar experience and found a solution ... could you please throw me a rope?

That's it.