I've been getting error=005 for the last few weeks. I even deleted my gw.dat
file last week because I couldn't get into one area after six tries. Still happens once in a while.
I seems like Anet is doing some backround uploads that are causing it, and
you just have to keep trying.
As far as spontainious deaths go in D'Alassio.... The Confessor is not totally
safe after he gives you the go ahead to get the staff. One time I finished
off the bad guys, headed off to get the staff, but decided to go make a sandwich first (henches). I was in the kitchen and thought I heard a fight
going on, came back to the game and found that a band of bad guy
stragglers had stumbled onto Dorian and were beating the crap out of him.
So even after he gives you the ho ahead to get the staff, there's still a
chance that he might get attacked.
I make it a rule to do a final sweep around the area now, before I head off
for the staff.