mc.net authentication is always buggy. I'd love to have the opportunity to rewrite their authentication layer. I'm sure hundreds of other dev nerds could solve the problem better than it has been "solved" thus far, too.
notch has revealed some pretty damning evidence about their architecture that explains why it can't keep up. It's powered by a single master database, for one, and it uses your login string as the primary key all over the place, for another.
*sigh*
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