story before point : as for usual with me.
today had a new patch, I couldnt connect at first because autoupdate didnt work for some reason. I DLed the new patch, installed, and then my shortcuts on the desktop didnt work, thus had to change the target to the patch file in the directory. So, I made two different shortcuts, one supposedly for each directory with the same target...this was my bad oversight because I thought I was opening two seperate installations, but rather was linking to the same.
fuck. I was really happy for a sec.
sorry for the mess up