DNS Troubles

I have been working on setting up Google Apps on my domain for a few days now... not that it's taking a long time because it's difficult, they actually have a very good help system but I don't have much free time after work.

Originally, I set it up on a sub domain of my domain for testing purposes. I didn't know how it would work with my site being hosted with FreeHostia and didn't want the service to interfere with it. I couldn't find any info on that topic, so I was afraid to try it at all on my domain.

But, after I got it set up on my sub domain and figured out how to customize my URLs and got comfortable with editing my MX and CNAME records for all the apps and discovered that it all runs off of sub domains of it's own that don't interfere with my own domain at all, I decided it would be okay to set up on my primary domain...

So I did. Everything seemed to set up exactly as I had done it before... but then tonight my website won't come up. At all. Not my homepage or any of the other pages...

So I log in to GoDaddy, my domain registrar, and take a look. It warns me as soon as I log in that it needs A records. What??

So I enter in the info for the records FreeHostia requires, and I am anxiously waiting to see my site working again....

I received an e-mail from GoDaddy after I updated the A records warning me that they had been changed, and what they had been changed too... but I don't know what happened in the first place. Changed from what? Why weren't they working? Where did they go? And why didn't I receive an e-mail if they changed somehow in the first place?

I don't quite know what happened yet, but there has got to be some sort of a correlation to putting Google Apps on my site... and I don't know if I even fixed it... but here's to hoping :)