Brooke explains it’s a “technical issue” that prevented her from putting him in her top 8 last month.

“It’s been driving me crazy … and so after going on a search through hundreds of pages of friends … I still can’t find Archie’s official page … along with a few other Idol contestant friends of mine! In time, I will work it out, when I have few spare moments while on the road!

“It’s kinda funny, and/or interesting how seriously people take this MySpace thing,” she writes. “I can’t believe I’m even writing a blog about this, LOL!!!”

And there you have it. Idol BFF forever.

The Cook v. Archuleta album competition will heat up this November. Cook’s album is produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Kid Rock, Eric Clapton). Cook has already been recording and co-writing tracks. Cook reports he will do 20 tracks, and cut the list down from there.

Says a new report, “While no specific release date, save for the month, has been announced for Cook’s debut, what is for sure is that this fall will mark yet another battle of the Davids, with Cook and Idol runner-up David Archuleta expected to drop their albums on the same day.”

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The film is currently shooting, gets released this October, and Archuleta is under a no-Idol ban until reportedly September.

David A was reported to appear in a live charity event this friday but allegedly yanked because it was not Idol-sponsored.

Could he film a shot for High School Musical 3 after September and still make the final cut? Probably not.

But how cool would that be to have in him HSM3!

Watch here a trailer from the October movie launch of High School Musical 3!

“Widynowski did not go into detail as to why Archuleta could not perform at the E Center — but just said that the Murray High School student simply could not appear at the non-American Idol sanctioned event. Widynowski said the “thank you” concert would instead be postponed to a later date, which was not set. However, the agent said it would have to wait until the American Idol tour concludes.”

Charming.

Do you think that’s right?