It could be you're trying to logon on a backup server which won't have your
details.

Try again to register at the multiplayer screen, then see what happens.

Andi.



"Rick Catton" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> Recently reinstalled GTR and have it all up and running, except that it
> doesn't seem to allow any online communication. The 'What's New' tab
> always tells me to connect to the internet, even though I am. Logging in
> with what I think is my previous username and password always reports
> incorrect username/password and attempting to re-register results in a
> general failure.
>
> I'm on a 2Mb broadband connection in the UK, with Windows internal
> firewall disabled and the 'retail' version of AVG set to allow
> communication through 'gtr.exe' and 'gtr_reporter.exe'.
>
> Incidentally, when I request the in-game 'Web' link, I get an empty IE
> window with 'page cannot be found' error message on
> http://www.simbin.com/whatsnew/.
>
> Can anyone help sort out the problem or tell me what I've forgotten?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rick.
>
>