Internet Connection Unexpectedly Broken (everytime)

[Rumhearty]

When I run Pirates Online I ALWAYS get the message: Your internet connection to the servers has been unexpectedly broken. Thing is, I had this message on the screen the entire time the client was downloading all the game files. I watched the progress as they downloaded. It's curious, if the connection is broken how am I getting the game files downloaded? I suspect this is a bug.

I got to the Pirate creation screen and was creating my pirate when this message popped up again. It got in the way of creating a pirate and when I clicked 'OK' it dumped me out of the game.

I am on a MacBook 2.2ghz with 2gb RAM and OSX Leopard 10.5.1 and a broadband connection.