Well, good news. Last night, when I found that OpenRPG wouldn't run right and let me even view a server list, let alone connect to a server (when it even bothered starting up at all), after several resets, I wound up just uninstalling and deleting all my OpenRPG and Python files. 6-1/2 years worth. Except the game tree stuff, which I saved in other folders. After a few hours, I had downloaded and reinstalled the current OpenRPG/Python stuff and now OpenRPG seems to be running right. Hopefully the stupid computer doesn't frag it up like that again.
So for now at least, I'm able to participate again. But damnit, I wanted to start Fot14K last night. -_-