Well that didn't work. After lots of messing around to get it all working it doesn't get any further.
Has something been changed with the cheat detection which makes it find the regular freelancer 1.1 updates as cheats?
That is all that I can think of. The basic freelancer is unusable without a few basic updates such as a fix for 16:9. Strangely I did not do any of the updates for the servers like mentioned in this thread and yet all the servers show for some reason. I did rename the Discovery Freelancer folder and installed to a folder with a slightly different name. I even renamed the older Freelancer folder so it did not get overwritten but still the servers show even in Freelancer.
BTW this might explain why there are so few people are playing it now if a lot of people are having problems connecting.