Feral Heart

It's getting pretty frustrating now, but every so often I'll be on FH, and get a 'failed to connect to map server' message.
This doesn't happen when going through portals, just randomly.

After I get this message, I'll send the character home and open the game up again. I'll get to the character selection screen, select my character -- and sometimes it'll let me in, other times it crashes. And just now, it has been making my character go invisible before crashing on me.

I've been through the help threads and found nothing that's helped me, or been the same issue as I'm having.

Things I've tried:
- checking for duplicates in the particles files
- sending the character home/resetting their home (allows me to get back on the character without crashes, but it doesn't solve the map server error)
- using different rendering subsystems

Resetting the home is the only 'solution' I have so far; it lets me play the game for a bit before I have to do it again (maybe about an hour). BUT it means having to run my character all the way back to the map it was in when I was roleplaying, and most often I have no way of telling people this is what's happened and why I've disappeared until I get back to them; and by that point, they're already gone.

I'm sure that I'm doing everything right, (there isn't really anything I COULD do wrong) but when people download my presets they can't see them. They have downloaded them before, but for some reason they can't see any of my new ones.

I'm not sure if this is an issue anyone else is getting, but I'd be greatful for some help.
Yes, I am exporting the presets and they /are/ being put in the correct folder when downloaded by other people, just they can't seem to see them.