Phew... its fixed... bids cleared, all PP refunded. (previous efforts to preserve existing bids failed as most of the openshipbids blobs were corrupted)
I just tested purchasing a ship in game, it came through ok.
So for now, please do not transfer to another race while you have open ship bids.
It may actually be necessary to login under a new race that you transferred to before purchasing a ship. I'll test that later.
I'll put a check for open ship bids on the transfers page a little later, its been a long day for me. I was up at 8, did an hour of intensive work on the webserver software, then from 9:30-1:00 I pulled up a kilometer of barbed wire fence. Had lunch, then worked on solving this from 3:30 to 7:30... I think I need to lie down for a while, lol. (I have yet to figure out Lyrkillers firewall log too... hehe)