Well, I figured out part of my problem, and maybe problems for others too. If anyone is using Proxomitron to block gif animations, pop-ups, banners, and all that other assorted stuff, that's what was causing my problems. Proxomitron uses a proxy setting to route all net traffic through it so it can filter out all the above mentioned stuff. Simply adding the proxy info to the settings.ini got rid of the error message, but still doesn't allow the launcher to launch.
I put my settings.ini back to original and went into my LAN settings in MSIE and got rid of the routing to the proxy and it connected like a charm.
Problem is, I like Proxomitron and don't want to stop using it, nor do I want to have to modify my MSIE every time I want to play SH5. So does anyone know what website (either URL or IP Address) that the launcher needs to access in order to connect? I thought I saw static3.cdn.ubi.com listed but adding that to my Proxomitron block file didn't do the trick. Does anyone else playing SH5 use Proxomitron and if so, have you worked around the problem yet?
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