I've found that there's something wrong with the new template and registrations/cookies. So I turned the good old gray template back on for the zillionth time. That didn't seem to help the karmas but maybe if I give it a day for the daylock to reset... so I'll leave the old template on for a day or two and see if that does the trick.
YEs. It might be around for a few days too. I've contacted my programmer who wrote the code for the karma function and I'm waiting to hear back from him.