Thanks for the quick reply.....
the game runs OK offline, although not as well as on my old machine.
I'm running a AMP Athlon 2800, 512K RAM, Radeon 9800 SE graphics with 128meg RAM, XP Home SP1.
I'm on 1Mb broadband. I've not heard of the RB3D 1st aid kit thingy so no, I don't have that installed.
The game is installed from a RBII CD and patched with the 3D Superpatch.
I hadn't put the two cookies from the 1078 patch in the RB directory, but I have now, and the entry concerning them is in the RB2 server config settings. When I tested it after that, about 5 or 6 times it let me get airborn before telling me about being asked to leave for unknown reasons.
Anyway, it'd be great if you could solve this dim southerners problems
Sid