Yeah, I can connect fine now. I just did a fresh install again but instead of using the 436 "creative edition" patch, I downloaded and installed the 436 "no delta" version of the patch. Something that you changed on the server didn't agree with that version of the 436 update. Thanks again for being so helpful. I hope that you hadn't already gone to the trouble of setting up a special test server for me. I'm sorry if you already had.

Thanks again,
-ASS