It appears that the real problem is php memory. This post seems to echo my problem: php-memory-and-wordpress.
Previous thought but probably wrong…
It appears that in WP-SpamFree 1.9.8.3 breaks Wordpress 2.7.1. It also appears that Broken Link Checker 0.4.10 breaks Wordpress 2.7.1 in the same manner.
I upgraded from 2.7 to 2.7.1 and these plugins seems to cause some admin pages to stall i.e. end displaying html before the ending </body> tag. Case in point, the Tools->Import page does not completely load when the plugin was activated but does when deactivated.
Just thought I pass this info along.
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Are you sure it was WP-SpamFree? I have it on my blog w 2.7.1 and it works just fine. Sounds like you got a corrupt copy or something.
Hmm, so it works fine for you? That is interesting. I did disable it and delete it and reinstalled the plugin and it still caused the issue or at the very least disabling it stop the issue. Maybe the interaction is greater, that is maybe this plugin and another one on together causes the problem.