just read this - http://forums.technicpack.net/threads/industrial-craft.45212/ - seems the mod is dead, or buggy / whatever. going to reinstall from scratch (that works fine) - installing that one mod screwed it all up though. The server is on another machine on my local lan - the launcher is on this computer - both work great until i installed that mod. solution: forget this mod / make FULL backups because mods cannot be trusted (?). Not to get off on a rant, and I know this is trivial to you guys, but servers / clients and mods could be so much easier for us noobs if they had a coherent .VER system. 1.0 works with 1.0 - 1.2 needs ver 1.2 mods and a ver 1.2 client. I know what you are going to say - to many people making to much stuff and they will not do this - *shrug* just makes it a nightmare especially for noobs like me.
thanks for the help though!