Hi twinspan,
the most important thing in working with the donkey is keeping your server.met file up-to-date. It contains the list of servers that the donkey tries to contact.
Due to serveral reasons, the list of servers available on the donkey network keeps changing constantly. If your server.met is outdated, just can't find any servers to connect to.
One easy way to do this is to use Maurice's auto-updater batch to start the donkey. You can get it here:
http://www.thedonkeynetwork.com/cgi-...sion%202.0.zip
Hope this helps,
Stoepsel