I ran into similar a couple of days back when I first got back into this.
I could get to character create however when I tried to zone in yup black screen and then dump to login.
Turned out it was actually my Client, it was the wrong version.
You need one of the versions listed here
http://wiki.eqemulator.org/p?Play_Gu...etting_Started
Although I wont give out links to a client, theres a nice little hint in the MOTD in the database
