Wyhen i first read this, I thought that Tripod had done it again. They won't think twice before deleting a website without *any* warning whatsoever. I know because they did it to me. But, fortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case. http://spiffydoodles.tripod.com still exists, because it tells you that Tripod doesn't allow directory listing. That means that there is no index.html present. As a question, why do you need the URL to be http://spiffydoodles.tripod.com/spiffydoodles/ as oppposed to http://spiffydoodles.tripod.com/?

Anyway, it appears to be the case that you simply haven't got a spiffydoodles folder. Use Tripod's File Manager and have a look at your website's contents, making that folder if you need/want to. Then make sure that there's an index.html somewhere and it should all work fine.

Matthew