Well I have decided to re-do the whole Epoch API.
The bad news:
Just about nothing works anymore (on the server side... I haven't started converting the Java client to the new API).
The good news:
The server actually builds, and a lot of things almost work. And... the new API should make it much easier to make clients for other platforms (win32, GNOME).
Anyway, hopefully things will get much more stable tomorrow. I think there where some (potentially) major memory leaks in the old server, which I will definitely fix. I am going back to school some time this weekend (weather permitting). That probably has some significance but I am not sure what it is at the moment.