About a year ago, I continuously tried to play the game, but I had the same problem. I tried again a few days ago just the heck of it, and it let me.

The game was really buggy between June and August. It was, for the most part, back in September that it became less buggy. but Some of the updates still caused crashing and other issues.

Monty :-/

After two weeks, I can finally log on again. I did upgrade the speed of my DSL line slightly, so maybe that made the difference. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.