Yeah, Andrew80k is right. There is no start.bat for playing EQEmu. That is only for running your own server. I meant to mention that in my original post in this thread, but I forgot to.
Make sure you are following the playguide here:
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...akka=PlayGuide
There is nothing about start.bat in there. The start.bat is only used in the server setup guide and you don't need to do that at all just to play EQEmu.