Creative Cow has a nasty habit of banning people if they don’t agree with what they say. They make it look like the site is having problems. I got kicked off because I commented that Spot’s leaving was a great loss for the Cow. The next day, I started getting “server busy” errors when I posted. They wouldn’t even answer my emails when I reported it to them. That's because they were causing it. So they are not even honest enough to admit they banded you. I have no use for people like that.
If you don't have netscape (or mozilla, etc) install that and see if it works then. Then you can tell if it's a settings/cookie problem. I had a problem with Gamespy & Netscape. Ended up I had to delete all my cookies to fix it.
They just changed servers and some software. The link I had saved no longer worked either. However, I went directly to www.creativecow.net and then navigated back to the Vegas forum, resaved my link, and now all is well. It was down most of one day last week but has been back and in fine shape for the last several days.