Just found out it wasn't Rapidshare... it was me.
The other day I found a neat looking program called Star Downloader 1.44 free. Well, I got it and installed it after some thought. Sure enough I didn't think long enough and installed it. It wouldn't run, wouldn't uninstall. All I got were errors. Went back and got the Pro version and installed it for a free 30 day trial. Then I uninstalled it. Now Rapidshare is working fine again.
So the moral of the story..... stay away from Star Downloader... any version. And think about what you download to use, if you've never heard of anyone using it before.