Has the server been going up and down all day? came on about 10 mins ago to find it down, then it was up for 10 mins, now it's down again

Yes.

aww that sucks. hopefully bukkit will sort it out soon

It isnt bukkit, its the addons.

yeah i just read on bukkit website that the crash bug on logout is fixed. hmm

Probably a combination of 1.5 bugs and bukkit bugs.

Could also be due to the hosts having problem. Who knows until broonie tells us.

Id reckon it has something to do with chests. I log in, open a protected chest, then exit the chest screen (Without taking anything out or putting anything in), i then try to re-open the chest and the server dies.

Since i was in the server for a matter of seconds, id assume that its something to do with opening chests (Seems like too much of a coincidence).

ok. lets test that when it comes back up.... then if true, we'll all need to avoid locked chests until broonie updates the plugin

ah seems broonie is looking at it as i've been refused connection

Bukkit (And Minecraft rather) is rather instable, I'm working on it with what I can.