Next time, either click "Verify Files" on the updater, or go into your CoH directory and delete coh.checksum then run the updater. Both of those can correct some errors, and are a lot quicker than restoring a backup, or worse, installing from scratch.
@Roderick
I did delete the checksum and try to reverify. Neither fixed it
Always check your server forum. It seems other people had the same problem on Freedom, possibly a hiccup or a reboot. It seemed to clear up in less than 15 minutes. A client reload was not necessary to fix this problem because it seemed to be a server problem...
did that too :P
Had a weird mapserv crash in freedom, and now am unable to log into it. I can log into every other server, but when I click freedom from server select list, it says "Lost connection to DBserver"
Halp me!
EDIT: Okay, reinstalled CoH from a backup i keep, that fixed it.