You must only be doing the main quest line then. I do all available quests and have always been at equal or higher level.

I pre-ordered on December 03, after I got the chance to play in the Thanksgiving stress test weekend, and my decision to pre-order was based on the test weekend playtime. I like Star Wars and played SWG for a long time, so I am excited about SWTOR. I hope that we all will be able to play the game starting the 15th. I hope BioWare is not trying to hide behind semantics and keeps stating "up to x days". All mmorpgs that offered early access, and that I played, let people in at the same day, regardless of when they pre-ordered. So this "staggered" early access is odd, and I can not understand the reasoning behind it. See you all in game.