I log in, get to the screen where I can choose my character (im a returning player) I choose my character, a screen comes up with a random ingame picture, music plays and it says on the bottom of the screen "looking up character stats" then once or twice it will flash for a second "Connecting" then goes back to looking up character stats....but it never does anything....

So I try creating a new character and but I get an error and a debug windows pops up:

FATAL ERROR: Invalid biote number, must be 200000 or above,:0@.\source\clienterrors.cpp:797

This is a fresh install on a Windows 7 PC

Any ideas? =)
Thanks