Yay, serious thanks, Alice!
And total thanks to Sonkem too - the adsense thingy is exactly the type of thing! I've submitted an application...just need to wait to see if google approve BaO to use the ads now
gecko - it's difficult to put a definite price as it depends on what you need (RAM, bandwith, hard drive size and type, processor speed and type), and what level of service you require. I've seen dedicate servers going for as low as $50 per month but the reviews are absolutely horrendous. Basically, to get anything decent it'll cost more that Li'l monster, both in terms of galleons and time too...especially initial set-up time as in most cases (at least at the lower end of costs), dedicated servers come just with a bare linux distribution. Things like apache, PHP, mysql, email and a lot more will probably all need to be configured.
[edited to add - oops, didn't see your post before I wrote this, sonkem. I've PM'd you about the problem whih should all be fixed now. For anyone else who had a problem in posting, one of the tables (quite a large one - the wordlist table) had become totally locked and refused to budge when I tried to unlock it, so a backup copy had to be uploaded.]