OK, maybe it's more specific. The last things I was able to see in my Quassel server's logs (no longer available, as I've reloaded everything) were my server's flakey connection for several hours, and then something along the lines of a ban against hostnames with *qwest* in them.
My nicks are tekoholic, tekoholix, psharmor, and I still cannot connect, due to the ban being still in place...
BTW, thanx for your attention, to this!!