How can I get around this?

[scary_dream]

I've tried hunting this down on the NF forums and on the FF forums, and have found very little information about it, so forgive me if I am re-posting a previous thread.

Anyhow, I finally got a computer that will run the game and successfully managed to play for the first few hours last night. I did all the missions in the future and then went to the past, and it worked fine for about ten minutes. I got up near the KND treehouse twice using the jump pads and it worked fine, too. Now, however, when I try to get up there again, I get the "network close" message. It is kind of frustrating because I can't really progress without getting up there, and I am stuck indefinitely until they fix it. The FF forum members say that they are having various jump pad problems, as well, but some of them say they aren't, and it is all just a bunch of complaining so nobody is really of much assistance.

What I'm asking is this: Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, how did you get around it? Did it fix itself after a while, or did you have to do something different?