[GrowlZ1010]

Riiiiight.

From your description of the symptoms, I'd say somebody who either is now or once was on your ISP has hacked or defaced Graal so badly that an IP Ban was called for. For reasons best left unexplained (at this point in the post, anyway), you've ended up with either their banned IP prefix (for example, 209.11.*.* will ban all IPs starting with 209.11) or their actual IP.

There are two types of internet connection. Cable, DSL and Broadband connections all tend to be 'static'. With these you get one IP addy which the company will assign to you. You keep it, and unless you get them to edit it for you, or they edit it themselves, you're stuck with that number. Dial-up modems are almost all 'dynamic', meaning that whenever you dial on you get a new IP address.

One of two explanations fit here: either the person previously IP Banned has got your ISP to provide another IP for him to get back on Graal, and due to an unlucky coincidence, you've got his banned IP, or (as outlined somewhere on the Graal website) your entire ISP has been banned temporarily as there have been too many problems originating there.

In summary; it's probably not an individual ban from every server, and once the right people hear about it, it's pretty easy to get fixed.

One question I'd like to ask you, for the sake of narrowing down the possible causes of this. Are you on a dial-up modem, or do you have a permanent connection (cable, DSL, broadband)?