Got an e-mail from Disney a week before going to WDW (I get two newsletters a month from them on stuff) and one was to try out the game... I was looking for a new game to ry out - so I signed up - and crashed when I went to sail.
I was stuck in Port Royal for a few days until I switched my video card back to an older model after I couldn't find an answer to my issue here (this was before the ATI fixes were posted here... and that's when I discovered POF as well

. Once I sailed... I was TOTALLY hooked, and payed up.