I had the exact same problem.
Ok, first of all, I haven\'t actually been able to get it to work in OpenGL mode but that might be just because my computer\'s slow. But that\'s beside the point.
Ok, if you\'ve got Windows XP go change the compatability mode to win98/me.
Then go to the planeshift website and delete your character (sorry, but you\'re gonna have to recreate him/her).
Then go recreate your character. At the end, when it confirms everything, change the channel from planeshift.fragnetics.com to 203.81.47.74
Hope that helps! By the way, I DID get this from somewhere else in this forum, but it was for something about a \"linkdead\" message which i didn\'t get, I got messages saying other things like what you got. Then it crashed. The \"linkdead\" message solutions worked just the same for me.
If it still doesn\'t work, try running it in \"safe\" mode.
Hope that helped! ^_^