Default,
Also YahooGroups now shows me as Owner as well as Moderator on some
screens.
That likely means that you have more than one membership in the group, at least one as moderator and one as owner.
When visiting the group's pages click on the "Membership" drop-down and see if you are listed with a blue owner crown or green moderator crown. If that display is a fly-out you can switch between memberships. Pick a blue-crown membership.
If that drop-down shows only a single membership, and it is not a blue-crown owner, you may need to sign out and sign in under a different account, one that has owner privileges. Before signing out look in the Moderators tab of the Manage Members list to see what other "Yahoo Profiles" (aka accounts) you have as members of this group.
Today ... I went into Edit Profile and I no longer can change the
*Role* of any member.
As a moderator you may not have that privilege. Any owner has it, and can give that privilege to moderators, but many owners don't give it to moderators, or give it only to select few, because the privilege to "Add, remove, and change moderator privileges" gives the moderator power second only to the owner role.
YahooGroups is making changes, likely to prevent group transfers.
I think it is more likely, given that you have both moderator and owner memberhips, that you were accessing the group with the wrong one, and that nothing has actually changed on the Yahoo side.
Shal
Shal Farley