No, the servers have been 1.1 servers (I filter them). I've been joining BOC Servers as well as the Defenders of Sovereignty one (when it was up) it's not a version mismatch.
In regards to troubleshooting I did delete all PB files (including the ones in the WIN32 directory) restarted, and ran PBsetup. I found 4 or 5 different procedures similar to this one and tried them all both verbatim and in combination with other suggestions. Basically they all pertain to removing PB (some via PKsvc, some by a simple deleting of the files etc..) then restarting (in some restarting wasn't needed) then reinstalling the PB via PKsvc and or PKsetup not necessarily in that order. I'm not going to type out everything I tried because that would take about 30 minutes or so lol I was at this for at least 5 hours last night after I downloaded v 1.1. I'm going to contact PB support but from what I read that can take a really long time -----> RC2 FTW? lol