I think the author's description of the failed troubleshooting he did is as interesting as the issues surrounding DRM: The overwhelming impression that a user

I think the author's description of the failed troubleshooting he did is as interesting as the issues surrounding DRM: The overwhelming impression that a user gets from a Google search for this error message is that this is a known, solved problem, and that one needs only to apply the right mix of hacks and tweaks (plus maybe a complete reinstall or two) in order to set things right and get back to playing. So hacking and tweaking is exactly what many of us set about doing. And doing. And doing. And doing. None of it worked. Or, when it did work, it had nasty side-effects like naked party members with no access to their gear. Again, we were vainly trying to fix a new server problem that had the symptoms of an old client problem.