my point is I didn't know anything about any update, not to mention anything to get excited about. when & where & how did they notify anybody. It doies begin "you probably already know about this" or some such.
when & how did the general tribe population get notified of this? when were we told that there will be a system change tomorrow?I mean, before this morning.

hold down the shift key while clicking the "reload" button.

Idon't know how to tell you how do to the cache thing(probably different depending on your browser) but to shift reload simply hold down the shift key while you click on the reload button on your browser. hope that helps

A shift-reload is done by holding down the shift key and clicking the reload button in your browser's toolbar. For most browsers this means reload the page and replace everything in the cache used by this page.

On FireFox and IE you'll find a 'Tools' option on the menubar. The last option on this menu will be 'Options' or "Internet Options'. This will bring up a dialog box which will have a section called 'Cache'. In that section there should be a control that will allow you to empty or clear the cache. Using that control will unload any images you browser may be holding.

If you're using a different browser it may be a little different, but they're all pretty similar.