People magazine and pretty much every other celebrity-gossip outlet with access to the Net says Spears holed up early Sunday in an LA hotel with a photographer named Adnan, checking out a few hours before sons Sean Preston, 2, and the other one, 15 months, were to arrive at her Beverly Hills house for a scheduled visit.

The slumber party ended several late nights that saw the Troubled Pop Star{trade} driving aimlessly through LA - at times with headlights off and trunk up. OK! magazine adds that Spears blew many red lights as she toured some of the city’s finest gas-station restrooms. People says Spears parked in a handicapped spot at a Rite-Aid drug store (”I have to buy stuff for my babies,” she told paparazzi) and purchased a 32-inch plush horse, labeled “For ages 4 and Up” (translation: Spears may not be a good mother).