Mid-September means anywhere from Sep11-20.
Was your group FULL (proper sized) for the instance, or were you trying to fill the rest of the slots?
The 1017 issue hasn't been there for about 2 weeks now... I have no clue what you mean by still taking hours to log in, as I get in in under 3 minutes now, depending upon queue size.

If you're this angry, just drop it, and get over yourself.