Welcome home, jingbadguy!
Cool story bro!

Hope you can get the game working if you haven't by now. Then you can start enjoying all the new stuff added to the server while you were away!
Thank you... Although, I think i may have messed up something cause all sorts of wacky errors. lol Uninstalling and reinstalling without the abdeta file... see what happens. lol
...without the abdata file? when you uninstall, the abdata file is deleted. and when you reinstall, the abdata file is installed. and it needs to be there in order to play. that's mostly where anesispatch puts stuff.
if you are still running into problems, look over this thread:
http://www.anesisro.com/forums/index.php?topic=118882.0it's just basic stuff, but it's good to make sure you were doing it right, so at least a few causes of the errors can be ruled out.