Intermittend issues with login and crashes

[Sonderbeast]

Hi folks, I got the itch and decided to play the ol' p99 again but I've been having some issues with the client (title).

A summary of the issues I've had over the past couple days is as follows. I'll boot up the client, log in and the server UI will be blank black about 90% of the time. That tenth time I'll be able to see everything and log into p99 just fine, log into a character and play for a while and then I'll crash while zoning. Then I'll have to go through the process again until I can see the server again (sometime I have to wait a couple hours).

Once in a while I'll pop into character select and all my toons are missing (like the patch files need updated)

Once I got the 1017 message.

Troubleshooting:
So far I've tried rebooting my router which doesn't seem to have a consistent effect.
I've tried a fresh install and have the same issues.
I tried adjusting my resolution in my eq game file to match my native resolution for the crash issue (not sure I did that correctly, however).
I've tried praying to a few different dieties including the agnostic one.

So far none have solved the issues.

Any help?