Are you using a eqemu launcher program or something? I don't believe servers that are down show up on the Login Server itself. Are you referring to the server list here?:
http://www.eqemulator.org/index.php?pageid=serverlist
Is this the play guide you followed? And did you verify your client version is one of the ones compatible with EQEmu?:
http://www.eqemulator.org/wiki/wikka...akka=PlayGuide