Upon further examination (as well as looking at an offsite BeBot bot), the code appears to be working, its just my local setup that seems to be dropping the ball.  It seems to not be identifying the dimension, and when I manually add in the dimension, it still isnt pulling the data.  I suspect that it is because I am behind a router, so I will continue looking into it.

Recap:  Probes.xml is up now, though Die Neue Welt is now known as d3 instead of dg.  It no longer counts a roll up of OT / Clan / Neutrals on the server.

EDIT:  The information is pulling correctly after the first line,

      $server = $this -> bot -> get_site("http://probes.funcom.com/ao.xml");

But after this next line, $server = "Array", $server["content"] = "".

      $server = explode("name=\"" . $this -> select_dimension() . "\"", $server["content"]);

EDIT2: Removed ["content"] and server.php now works as expected.  Thanks to http://us3.php.net/explode