I bought Crysis 2 Maximum Edition on Steam a few weeks ago and decided to try out multiplayer today. I entered the CD key that Steam gave me and started up the match. For some reason it was showing me as a level 5 even though I had never played before. I started a match and then got kicked because my connection to my opponent was lost. I then logged back on and I was level 1. I then tried a match and got kicked because it failed to verify the DLC (the server I was on said standard, I don't know if that is relevant). I've been trying to play for almost a half an hour now and I always get kicked within 1 minute of starting because of getting one or both of those error messages. Can someone please help me? Thank you very much.

. For some reason it was showing me as a level 5 even though I had never played before.
Thats the 'head start' bonus you get with the max edition. Ill let someone else answer the rest.