I can't log on to City of Heroes and I'm at wits end. HELP!!!!!!!!!!

[Logan Darklighter]

Okay. I went to go log in to City of Heroes, downloaded the latest patch and got this after typing in my password and hitting "log in":



(Yes, that is City of Heroes, I just have a customized backdrop to it.)

Ok. I've seen that before, it USUALLY means that it's a problem on City of Heroes end. And I just have to wait. Well I checked the server status page
and it said everything is up and running. I started doing some checks.

I'm running Windows XP SP2

This setup has been running fine up until late last night.

I checked my firewalls, turned them off. Reset my router. Nothing. Same thing.

I want to stress that all this time I am able to get online normally with all my other applications - except World of Warcraft, which is doing something
similar to what City of Heroes is doing, except it gives no explanation. It just hangs at the login.

I did release and renew of IP and DNS Flush from the basic Network Repair in Network Connections. Still no go.

I checked the command line prompt. That's when I ran into something very strange looking.



Now that just does NOT look right AT ALL. Yet somehow I'm able to get on the internet.

I took the router out of the loop entirely and hooked up to the cable modem directly. This is what I got:



Did ipconfig /release



And then a renew:



I also did ipconfig /flushdns and ipconfig /registerdns while I was at it.

Here's something else to ponder:



That all shows as normal even though the command line is funky.

(Oh and here's what it looks like when I have the Router hooked in: )



I have gone as far as uninstalling the network driver and connections and rebooting to get the auto-reinstall of the drivers. Still no luck. I can get online
just fine with e-mail and browser, but City of Heroes and World of Warcraft? Gone. Can't play them. What the hell is going on here?

Help?