Loading hangs at Negotiating with Server

[Lunarrage]

By all accounts I have everything installed properly. After reading over many of the posts for related problems I am unable to resolve the issue myself. Essentially, the game stops loading at the Negotiating with servers. It does not crash, close, or black screen. It just sets there.

I have created a character through the website. The website was showing the server to be up.

My system stats:
OS: Win7 Ult 64
MB: M4A78T-E
CPU: AMD Athlon 2 quad core 2.6Ghz (ish)
RAM: 16G DDR3
Graphics: Dual MSI GeForce N460GTX Twin Frozr II combined 1.5G Ram GDDR5

Any thoughts? If there is any other information you need from me let me know. Thanks folks.