The truly sad, and somewhat disturbing, part of all this is if it is so easy for some random player with IT skills to create a work-a-round to fix Funcom's bugs, why won't funcom do it for real?
I'll be honest, I get tempted to come back and play the game but then I am reminded why I left when reading threads like this.
Too many bugs. Too many broken features. Too many missing features. Too little fresh content.
Yes, it's a workaround. It worked as long as it can, but it don't work anymore. And even when it still worked, the issue reappears magically after some days/weeks.
I'm still stuck with this bug retyping my pw since 18 months or rechanging settings. It's really a shame they can't fix this.