[AdrianD]

Try putting the comments back for this section.

	<!-- Launcher Configuration -->
	<launcher>
		<logprefix>logs/zone-</logprefix>
		<logsuffix>.log</logsuffix>
		<exe>zone.exe or ./zone</exe>
		<timers restart="10000" reterminate="10000" />
	</launcher>

	<!-- File locations.  Defaults shown -->
	<files>
		<spells>spells_us.txt</spells>
		<opcodes>opcodes.conf</opcodes>
		<logsettings>log.ini</logsettings>
		<eqtime>eqtime.cfg</eqtime>
	</files>
	<!-- Directory locations.  Defaults shown -->
	<directories>
		<maps>Maps</maps>
		<quests>quests</quests>
		<plugins>plugins</plugins>
	</directories>

Quote for the guide on the wiki.

<launcher>
        <exe>zone.exe</exe>
        <!-- or... -->
        <exe>./zone</exe>
</launcher>
This option allows you to specify which zone binary the launcher will run. If you build your zone with perl support into ZonePerl.exe instead of Zone.exe, you can specify that here.

<launcher>
        <timers initial="20000" interval="2000" restart="10000" reterminate="10000">
</timers></launcher>
This element lets you configure various timers that the launcher uses. All values are in milliseconds.

restart - This is the time between when a zone goes down, and when it is started back up again.
reterminate - This is how long we wait after sending a kill signal to a zone before killing it again.
initial - This is the time we wait after booting the first zone on the machine before booting any more zones (to let shared memory load).
interval - This is the time between booting each subsequent zone.

<!-- File locations.  Defaults shown -->
<files>
        <!-- <spells>spells_us.txt</spells> -->
        <!-- <opcodes>opcodes.conf</opcodes> -->
        <!-- <logsettings>log.ini</logsettings> -->
        <!-- <eqtime>eqtime.cfg</eqtime> -->
</files>
These entries are provided if you need to override the names or locations of the needed files. You probably don't need to change these settings.

<!-- Directory locations.  Defaults shown -->
<directories>
        <!-- <maps>Maps</maps> -->
        <!-- <quests>quests</quests> -->
        <!-- <plugins>plugins</plugins> -->
</directories>
These entries are provided if you need to override the names or locations of the needed directories. You probably don't need to change these settings.

Comment out the launcher lines, specifically.

If you know what you are doing, by all means uncomment, comment, change, do whatever you want. If you are a novice like me, I suggest leaving things as they are UNTIL you get things up and running.