Still working on this and made no progress.
At this point I followed the recommendations for a local install found in the config documentation here:
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...rConfiguration
That means I re-setup my mysql database to eq, added an eq user, and stripped most of the configurations out. Re-attempted everything and the login server still works fine, eqlauncher loads but fails on world connect, and I still get the same error for world.exe.
At this point I have stripped everything down as far as I can based on the different pieces of documentation I have been able to dig up, but nothing is changing the results.
Any suggestions out there?