I disabled a module and my website turns into code I am working on an old Drupal website. I disabled the Electric Embers subscribe module - to get rid of a newsletter subscription option to a dead list.    Previously my website was in off-line mode, but otherwise worked.    Now the website looks like pure text or code.

www.rachel.org

I checked the database and the ee-subscribe module is still enabled.

Unfortunately I didn't make a backup before turning off this module.  However, I've never seen turning off a module cause so much havoc.

I currently cannot use my admin log in or do anything directly through drupal.

Update
When does Drupal 5 change the filename field in the system table? The problem occurs when it sets the "filename" field to "modulename.info" (or .install or .js) for 10-20 modules.  I can manually set it to "modulename.module" but the fix only lasts an hour or so.

I don't think that cron is running as there are no cron jobs scheduled and I do not use poormanscron.  However I don't know how to test this.
Try using Drush if you have installed it.

&gt; drush dis your_module_name
&gt; drush cc all