i used to [lay this game constantly but now i can, why would you even take down earlier versionsof the game if there was chance of running it? now until this is somehow fixed i cant play

The old versions used the old servers. Those servers are gone now.

However if you'd take then time to look you would've found this:
http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=323196

There's a patch for older versions.