on that blue update lines fill and the screen just sits there.
i run xp pack 2 on all my machines, AND occassionally i run into that problem on one or two of them on patch day. most go to 100% and then the log in screen pops up.
then occassionally on one patch day one will go to 100% and then sit there forever. after a few minutes of that i kill the process, reboot the machine and then am able to log into AC no more problems. it isn't always the same machine and it isn't always every patch.
so it's just something odd about possibly a timing issue with machine, OS, internet, the weather????
may want to try the reboot and see if you can log in next time it happens to you.
-----signature-----
Ag Nar
Portal Mule Master of the Loresraat
Mastering the pixels of gamedom, 1 MMORPG at a time..