Any ideas/suggestions what might be causing this and how to solve it? Thanks.

Why Cant I post images here?

Here is a link to a picture of the problem:
tinypic.com/r/v4rrit/5

I press "play" and go to the screen where the game is supposed to launch. However, the box in the middle where the game shows how far it has loaded is blank. Because of this, I believe that Spiral Knights isn't loading. Plz help! I've tried to restart my browser and everything but nothing is working.

After logging on through Steam, I selected my knight and says "Entering Ready Room". I have been waiting for 20 minutes and all I see is my selected character walking in place on the Character Select Screen. Can't play this game anymore with this problem in the way.

Here's the evidence of what I mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zmEv11upZY

And when I was doing something else while waiting for the ready room to start, I get disconnected from the server.

Hm,i made a new char and when i enter rescue camp i can't even barely move -.-' then i thought it was my connection problem so i restart then play it again.Well,this time i can move but the lag were like wow,u saw that your flying around with a sword.>.<' it take me 5min to kill a slime(not because i'm a noob it were because the lag making me going crazy -.-').when i swing nothing appear and everything freeze but still able to saw those slime decreasing my health but can't do anything,i did swing but nothing happen.

The application has failed to launch due to a missing resource:http://download.threerings.net/spiral20110721120606/digest.txt

This is what i get when i open up the game from my desktop, from the browser all i get is a white screen.
I use to play this game without any problems so i know its not my system specs and I have the latest version of java installed.
Ive tried going to the URL but Chrome keeps putting up a 404 screen indicating that it cannot find the URL. Someone please help.

Lately I've been having problems with the game not starting up at all. It gets as far as the window opening up with nothing in it, then closing again a few seconds later. Sometimes I'll try a few hours later and get on no problem, then I'll close the game and try again later and it'll be doing this again. Friend said it had something to do with a failed patch and that he had the same problem too.

I have tried reinstalling Java (and it is the latest Java), and reinstalling Spiral Knights. My graphics drivers are up to date and I have no problems running anything else.

This is going to be kind of a rage post, but I have to say it. I lag so bad in this game now it's unbelievable. No, I'm not talking FPS, I'm talking "connection" lag. Now here's the problem, my connection CONSTANTLY fluctuates between 1 and 3 bars, mostly staying on 1. Half the time I'm not even connected, by that I mean every mob walking off the map and not being able to do anything, then 5 minutes later I teleport into god knows where and die. Here's evidence of this besides the dying part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F31IabRI1g

I payed by Cash-u and the stuff i ordered didnt arrive even though Cash-u is INSTANT!!!

I cannot start SK from Steam while steam community is checked.
It starts up, the process works java.exe starts in task manager, then it dies
It works without steam community, but I have money in my wallet which I would like to spend.
I am running Windows 7 and have refreshed Steam.
Any advice?

I live in a mostly internet deprived county in england, UK (those of you who live here would know it as Norfolk) and yet normally my conection to SK servers is almost perfect. I never used to have a problem.... unless I was downloading something, anyway.
Recently, my internet speeds reduced from 145kb/sec download to 15kb/sec, which clearly was not enough to play on SK. Still, I gave it a shot, and connection strength flew from 3 bars to 1 and back again. I knew I couldn't play, but it was enough to sit and chat with friends in Haven, at least.