The following plugins have been updated:

Blogs Directory
- No longer requires our avatars plugin

Global Site Search
- Now displays a message when no results are found

Global Site Tags
- Url encoding issue fixed - this may be the bug causing trouble for some of you

Simple Sitemaps:
- Now includes pages
- Now pings additional search engines

Let's keep this thread dedicated to issues with the above updates. Any non-relevant posts will be removed from this thread.

Thanks,
Andrew