It's not bad code. Someone changed the write permissions on various folders. The file listed in the error is the hit counter for that page, which isn't critical. However, the stats code has lost write permission too.
Once a suitable person comes online, I'll have them fix the permissions. Until then, our pages will look a little ugly, and our stats will be frozen. If it stays broken long enough, I'll have to overwrite the site stats history with my local files.
Note: graphs and team ranks are not affected by this.
[ 04-06-2002: Message edited by: reader50 ]