I can join the server and play fine. and then about 2 to 5 minutes into play, (location text never finishes loading) it kicks me to 'scoreboard(line) screen' with disconnect button as though i pressed escape and abort.

i'm using the new anims mods if that makes any difference. WHICH DOES! As soon as i disabled the addons, it stopped doing it.

I'll take a look at the battle eye logs later and see if was a scripts exception that kicked you before you got in. I've checked the anims recently and they were working ok for me but there might be a missing exception.