I went ahead and turned off server side caching in Drupal. It seemed to be causing problems by caching the captcha output, resulting in a few problems for anonymous users.
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I think you made it worse
Captcha worked fine for me before, but now it must be entered in the lower case, whereas the text of it is crealry printed in upper case.
What I didn't tell you is..
...that I secretly switched your brand of coffee with Folgers...
...err... I mean, I had updated the captcha system to a newer version. Apparently, the setting for "capitalization" now meant that the captcha is shown in capitals, but not accepted that way. Should be showing and accepting lowercase now.
Truthfully, I dislike captchas in general, but there really isn't a much better way to stop spam-bots... Though, since you do have a livejournal account, you can login that way with the OpenID system if you want to skip the whole captcha check process.
Actually, there is also having a CSS-hidden text field that the system can possibly capture bots... I might try that when I get more time.