Nope, removing characters won't help. I did it in my threads and they still log me out every time and give other users blank pages.
I will have extras of the items since I'm doing the event also on my mule, so if you need anything let me know. I'm not really sure which item was for what actiivity though
I recommend going to Knuffel&Avatar forum section, it has the old word games threads (I believe that's what they were called before). It's mostly comparing two avies to one another or something similar, so it's quick and easy enough to gather the event items.