Okay... so here's what happened. The server went down on thursday (AKA it lost network connectivity, or more precisely packets were not being forwarded to the server) and I ended up spending 15 hours on and off with tech support in Chicago trying to figure out what the fuck was going on. All inital accounts pointed to it being a software issue on my end (likely a virus because I was a dumbass and left the firewall down after screwing around) since the network interface worked fine under a Linux LiveCD but not under the installed OS.