To my knowledge, any older patched client will not work either because the titanium client was never used in LIVE, or so people have said, so it would be impossible to have a old patched compatible copy.
As far as EQ still patching, that is beuase your shortcuts excutable is still set to Everquest.exe with the patchme option. Everquest.exe is the patcher itself, and the actually game is eqgame.exe Hence why you have to point at the eqgame.exe file. Then adding patch me tells the client that it does not need to restart the patcher Everquest.exe, or to my assumption, from personal expierences,
Either way, your still SOL if you dont have a titanium copy. Its not avilable at brick and mortar retailers anymore, but some online vedors and auction sites still have many copys.
There are other ways, but we cant mention them here for fear of rule enforcing gnomes that cast Quad Harmtouch on your ass......
