ninja-fred1

Sounds like it might be a fungus or some sort of bacteria thats causing the smell. I recommend using some anti bacterial soap.

Its working for me again. I re-downloaded the .jar and it connects to the server now.

I'm definitely running on 1.5.4. Is the bot working for you?

Same. The client has been retrying endlessly for about 10 minutes now. Tried restarting but it didn't work.

No problem, if you go to youtube, adblock plus will block all advertisements from the videos as well.