There's one other little hint I can give you Don.

Some links on Mudcat, both within the "system" and given by users refer to a specific server (which includes www). When things go wrong, try changing the www, shorty or whatever part of the URL to the name of another server (say loki).

It won't always work but it does give you a better chance of accessing the bits that may seem unavailable when Mudcat is not running at 100% but it can be useful, e.g. we had someone post in the help last night looking for the auction - the page on loki linked to shorty but typing in and using http://loki.... worked perfectly...

Jon