["Login failed, Unable to connect to simulator"]

Oh, that's a nasty bug that can leave you stuck in limbo for weeks.  To clear it, Go to Market Place and find a cute pair of shoes.  The must be mesh and able to fit Slink high or the Lara mesh feet. 

Click "Buy as Gift" and send them Rhonda Huntress.  There is something about that name that has the correct number and placement of vowels or something.  Anyway, send her the shoes along with the message "You're the fairest of them all."

Then wait 30 minutes and log in normally.

 

 

[Usernames - all real names have been taken - free up old ones?]

All possible names are taken?  I must have been lucky.  I got my name first try.  I'm sorry if I took the last available character combination from you.