So I've played the game for several months on my home PC no problem. Last week we bought a couple new laptops and ran into the notorious "blue screen of death" that everyone seems to be talking about. No matter what I tried, I could not log into the game. Then after about a week of trial and error I was able to finally resolve the problem. It was really a pretty simple fix.

1) Download and use the Mozilla Firefox browser
2) Download and install Adobe Flash 11 (both the plugin and ActiveX) Make sure it also removes all previous older versions of the Adobe Flash in the process.

That's it! Hope it helps someone else like it did me =)