Trouble playing Project 1999, or in that case, any server

[Spongeboobsquirepants]

I have admired this game for a whole year, I want to play it so bad, I've been using the torrent from Piratebay and I've got a Windows Vista, I always get the Error 1017, can never play stopped trying to get things working about 7 months ago, but now im back, I saw that whoever made the torrent updated it and said there was a problem with the 5th disk, maybe by downloading the new one will help, please give me a few other ideas and reasons for why its not working, I'm not a computer genius or any of that so I would like some good clear ideas in plain english and with steps and guides to help me. Maybe you cant use the torrent or something? I dunno, I just need some well- thought out answers, this game looks unbelievably great and I want to relive my first experiences with EQ,

Thanks, Spongeboobsquirepants