ok this is weird, i got an email that said "
techsquad2" replied to this thread and asked "Did anyone help to solve the IP ban issue?" but i don't see it 
im responding anyway.
no one contacted me about the issue. the issue seemed to go away on its own. i had the exact same issue a couple days ago and the next day everything worked fine again. idk what's going on but iv had the "error 1005 access denied. the owner of the site has blocked the autonomous system number my IP is in" page happen on 2 other sites in the last year so im not sure it's an issue with my account or this forum. but i also don't know what the heck's going on that keeps causing the issue so...