Zone unavailable?

[leggomyeggo]

Currently, all my chars are in the Arena zone. I sign on to the server fine, and see all my chars, but when i click a char and try to play him, it says "That zone is unavailble" Usually, ill just close eq, and come back in about 15-20 min, and it works, but all day today its been giving me the same thing. Is the zone actually down?

Btw, i reinstalled eq, patched to eqlive, checked and double checked my eqhost.txt file, made the shortcut with patchme, everything. Still gives me the same message. Dont belive it could be my comp, but just in case, Im running WinXP pro, 64mb vid card, 512 ram, and 3.06ghz.