Gorbulas, lets, for the moment, assume that the user /has/ connected since they wrote the previous forum message...

Try reinstalling and check whether your firewall has gone back up (they do that sometimes :S) It is possible that the server was temporarily down, and you simply have to try again.
Please use more descriptive titles next time, and offer more detail other than \"it shot to hell\". It is nearly impossible to make anything of that statement.
josePhoenix