Lenny,
That's a weird problem to have.I think you D/Led a currupt file somewhere in that big 100+mb D/L.However, they have the full file for D/L now and if you so choose you can torrent the files through the loader.This way it is made easy.Just a point and click thing.I also tried it a while back and it wouldn't even D/L on my comp.Why?I dunno but it works great now.I can run the thing on 1280x1024 32bit highest quality EVERYTHING options and have a great ping(50-75) depending on servers and even host on basic DSL a good 12 man server w/out lagg.For a while the servers where down for some reason so that could have been your problem as far as the login screen thing.But once you get past the whole lagin screen it is pretty basic and EZ.
P.S:No Bob......I am a real person......not a bot(LOL).

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