Every time i try to connect to any server it says "Updating Lighting" first and for five minutes....ish then says generating [HIGH] / [MEDIUM] and then says "Did not recieve guest info"

Its not something thats retricting me from getting on a server, it just happens once, then i try again and it connects, but if i try again it has to go through the whole thing again.

Any Advice?

That's happened to me before, but it only happens when I'm loading a new track environment, say going from Aston to Kyoto or something. This shouldn't be your problem, though, because all you've got is blackwood, weird.

That is happening to me quite often.Then i got the message couldn't get track info. After i click OK and connect again, it only takes few seconds and i am in, does not start the whole process from the beginning.
So at the end it is not such a bad thing, i can live with it, untill i can connect to races...