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by michaelb » January 24th, 2007, 1:31 pm
I suspect that DR is doing something at the server end, since it seems like more and new problems have cropped up in the past month or so. The new race server and system, version 2.5 or something, was supposed to be beta testing in Oct, then Dec, then "mid Jan" and still hasn't happened. They often make changes and don't tell us, and make changes and mess something up. So that would be my first thought.
But another possibility is a profile profile, which has been a long standing and fairly common problem going back to the very beginning. Have you raced online before? Have you tried to change anything about your race profile, like change your computer name or log in name or something like that? I think we all have 3 profiles, at oarbits, on the race server, and for chat, and if one of those is messed up, you can get exactly what you are describing: being able to sign up for a race, but not able to race, etc. The only way I know how to fix profile problems is for DR support to do it for you.
Do you have a wireless connection to the internet. Although I don't think that fits your problems, the current race server is very sensitive to momentary dropped connections, even when you can't perceive any problem and everything seems to be working fine.
M 51 5'9'' (1.75m), a once and future lightweight
Old PBs 500m-1:33.9 1K-3:18.6 2K-6:55.4 5K-18:17.6 10K-38:10.5 HM-1:24:00.1 FM-3:07.13