Strange connection error at startup

[colorblind]

I'm having troubles connecting to other games. I'm not talking about connect to BattleRooms; that works fine.

It's when the host presses start, Spring loads normally, but in the opening screen (right after 'creating sky') my player name is in red while all the others are in green. I do get the first few messages the other players have send before my Spring is done loading. But when I'm in-game I get nothing. I can't send any messages; the only thing I can do is rotate the camera .... joy. After about 10 seconds of being 'dead in the water', Spring spontaneously exits to Windows.

When I try to replay the demo recorded from such an attempt I get the following error messages:

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Network error in CPreGame:
Unknown net msg in client 31

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Network error in CPreGame:
Unknown net msg in client 8

You can get this particular replay here:
http://www.fmf.nl/~teake/temp/demo_lostconnection.sdf

Please also note that this doesn't happen when I host a game, but only when I try to connect to a someone else's game. And yes, I have to correct ports forwarded on my firewall.

I'm guessing this bug has something to do with the long time Spring takes at starting up (I have a relatively slow computer, < 1Ghz) and my network buffer overflowing in the time that the host has finished loading and I'm still busy starting up.
But that's just a wild guess. Any help is greatly appreciated, because I am *really* getting tired of this ...

[Delta]

I get the exact same errors when recording an demo (other peoples recordings work fine, just my own that gives this problem), never had the other problem thou.