Its probably related to the crash a couple of hours ago, and I'm sure forum is fixing it. But those 2 things arn't the only things going wrong. Intell and attack logs don't come up when you hit someone either. And you get white error messages in the banner.
Your rank should be correct as listed on the left hand menu, and from what I gather the ranks as listed on your war/peace relation pages are ok. Its the ones on the main rankings pages that are a bit warped and from the looks of things, cut everyones rank (and planets?) by a third or so. needless to say it shocked me when I thought i was able to hit half the people from 100-200. Pay attention to the rank mod before you try and do something very silly.