After reading the known bugs page, I managed to get to the loading screen.  Unfortunately it only gets as far as loading the world.  On the known bugs page it mentions that there is a bug concerning the loading time.  It reads that it can take anywhere between 20-50 minutes, so I left it running for somewhere between 1 hour to and hour and a half.  However, it never loaded so I hit ctrl alt del and saw that it was \"not responding\" and clicked end task.  What can I do to fix this?  Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Sincerely,
Felideus

I too get this error every time I try to connect.