Hi & welcome. In addition to what Pardner wrote, if you do in fact have the quake 3 point release 1.32 installed correctly it's also possible that the server you tried to connect to is running an older version.
Since you seem to be using a retail q3 installation (instead of IoQ3 or Openarena) there are only 3 or 4 non-passworded servers you will be able to connect to as far as I know. You might want to have a look
at this topic for an explanation.
If you continue to experience trouble, don't hesitate to post here again & please provide us with any information that you think might help us determine your problems.
