Authorizing reader for library books

My last Sony reader suffered a heart attack, or something, in September.
My replacement cannot handle a transfer from the Adobe Digital Editions Library module.

I'm using a SONY PRS-350. on a Dell using WIndows 7, running ADE 2..0.

I used to download from the Public Library, using Overdrive, in ADE and transfer the book to the reader.

With the new reader, I get the error booktitle error: CE_COPY_NOT_PERMITTED.

If I try to authorize the book. or the program, or the Adobe ID, I get an error reading to the effect "E_AUTH_SERVER_NOT_READY with a retry button that just recycles endlessly, with each click.

Leaving on a cruise soon...would sure like to read a book, or two...

All help appreciated.
Thanx

jbpm