Apache won't start, nothing in error_log, HELP?!?

Ok, here's what happened... I came home after being out of the office this afternoon to find the server down. By looking at teh access log timestamp, looks like it went down at 2:30 ESD. I tried starting it and found it complaining about log file size. I gzipped the logs and deleted a couple of domain logs and the error_log. When I deleted those I did also delete the bytes and bytes.offset which I hope wasn't a mistake.

When it still wouldn't start after deleting the files, I touched all three files, the domlog itself, the -bytes_log, and the -bytes_log.offset. After doing that, still nothing. In the error_log all I get is the PID warning about overwriting the PID file. So it creates the PID, but apache still ends up not running.

I've tried reboots, commenting out the virtual entries dealing with the logs that I've messed with, re-compiling apache and so on, still teh same mess. It says it started it (httpd start), but it's not there and I have no real errors to go off of. I did chagne the error_log level to debug to try and see if it just wasn't outputting it, but that changed nothing in the logs.

Any help or can anyone point me in a direction?

thanks,
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