gets stuck during character creation

[koulomb]

Hello all, I'm stuck in character creation. When I choose a name
I get the message "submitting to server for approval" and then
nothing happens. I've left it running for an hour once, nothing
happened.

I have the titanium CDs installed properly, I've turned off my
firewall, my eqhosts.txt file is perfect. *shrug* any ideas?

thanks,
-steve