editor stopped working

first of all - no. i don't use the built in editor. base feedback is what i want to do is just type in an article and i don't feel like figuring out the modules and placement of features when i just want to write a quick article. basically the "toolbar" is just too spread out and the screen too modular. i just prefer a standard toolbar and input at this time.

that being said, i've gone through quite a few to get exactly what i'd like and have used jce, ark, nextgen and now back to tinymce and an expanded toolbar.

a few weeks ago one of my writers said she was having a hard time with the buttons working. i thought it was her but when i went and tried it, think like "create link" and "insert picture" were not working. CTRL-K was not allowing me to create a link either.

some buttons do work, many do not. i swapped editors and all do the same thing. i have removed the other editors in case they were causing a conflict but it's still happening. whatever conflict it caused could be hidden in a stylesheet but i'm at the end of my comfort zone in hacking up my site to get this going again.

fyi - standard joomla content is working fine and the editors work there w/o issue. it's only in easyblog where i'm having the issue.

any help appreciated in getting my editor working again. for now all i can do is do this in word and paste it in.