the reason my game wouldnt work is becuase i was trying to access one that froze right after uploading.  It worked however, when i started a new character that made it all the way through to the world.  Also, set your color options to 16-bit.

the first problem i had:  When i tryed to upload my character it froze on the loading, so i read that you could then just connect

this lead to my second problem: It would freeze at the loading of the world, even when i had a cable modem running into a 1.5 ghz p4, geforce 3 65mb, and 512 ram.

the things i did:  the first thing i did was turn my color settings down to 16-bit.  im not sure if this did anything, but it was what the settings were at when it loaded.

Secondly, i created a new character, this time it didnt freeze after uploading, and i got into the world.  With this character i can get in everytime, but with my first character that froze right after uploading, i cannot get in.

I hope this helps at least one person that had the same problem i did. good luck
              Furyen