Messing around with the order of the programs "findempeg" and "empegface" in my StartUp group seems to have fixed the problem

I take that back. Actually, what happened is that they fixed whatever routing problem they had on the server side, and everything suddenly started working. The fact that I was fiddling with the order of those programs at the time was a coincidence. Now all my machines work without any issues, and they're all back to their original configurations. *SIGH*