I got in, went to the Emporium to try to get credits from Esmeralda and start the quest. Got my credits, finally got through the lag enough to start the quest, did the first task, and get my credits from the NPC there. Went to do the second task and crashed as the room appeared. Now I'm logging in again.
Edited to say: got the disconnected message after I posted, and now the login screen is too busy to process my request. I wish staff would flip the switch from broken to fixed so I could get back in and do the quest.