Issue appears to have begun on 6/20/2009 about 9:40PM.  No admins on the chat, but all are reporting issues.  Be thrilled to see some sort of quick action.  If your ISP Is doing maintenance again... at 9:50PM ET, they suck.  Anyway, going to try a few more times... issue still going on at 9:54PM and beyond I'm sure.  Well, off to play another game this evening. 

Description of problem.  Initially, login/pw failed message.  Got past that after a few attempts.  Everytime something is clicked (like internet) about a minute passes before anything happens.  This continues for every button pressed.

UPDATE - not sure what the problem was, but it was apparently fixed by 10PM ET, so not a big deal.  Oddly, I couldn't get someone to join a game of SOASE during the time frame... same issue there?