Launcher Freezing

[Gerik]

Try copy/pasting the matrix2.bat file in your folder, then right click the copy and selected properties. Hit the shortcut tab and under 'Target' add this to the end -nopatch. This will make it so your launcher doesn't try linking up with the old patch server-thingy or whatever the patches were on that downloaded to your launcher.

That's if you haven't done so yet, if you have, I dunno.

That got me past the patch servers but it fails to authenticate, telling me the auth servers are unavailable.

You running Reality before you use your launcher? If Reality doesn't stay up and visibly running, you might have to reinstall the MySQL server.