Having a hard time getting the client to log in to the online demo world

As the title says, I might be doing something wrong, but I opened all the ports and then tried turning off the firewall and I get the following message:

Unable to Connect to Server
The Multiverse World Browser was unable to connect to the specified world server. Possible causes include:

The world server is not running - If this is your server, check server status and log files.
Incorrect world entry in Multiverse Network database - If the world is under your control, check the entry in the Multiverse Network database.

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Unfortunately currently the public worlds are no longer working. We might in the future rehost them but at the moment they are all down.

Now *this* you might want to "sticky" until this changes. All of the documentation in the on-line tutorials and WIKI ALL say that you have to connect to the demo worlds or you have done something wrong. I got tired of seeing the error and decided to just try a local server, which, I did get to work...eventually.

I've stickied it.
I'll also go onto the Wiki at some point, and add a temporary note for any future developers (until March 2012)