Greetings! Need help. nuch appreciated!

[ender70]

Hello everyone! I first want to thank all who have created this great outlet for us EQ fans. I was an avid player back in the day, before kids and responsibility, and, now that the little ones are older and busy at school and whatnot, I look forward to getting back into the game, with real fans who have always loved EQ.
Ok, back to point. I went and bought Titanium, installed on my pc. I have more than recommended specs to play, 1.6 Athlon, 1GB ram, Radeon 9600,( I know- old machine, but it gets the job done!)
Went through and changed all the files, EQhost and Eqgame, even tried the refresh rate tip for EQclient. Nothing seems to work. I have all the updated drivers from the manufactures websites. I played titanium for a bit, mostly during a free trial, on the live servers and it worked fine. Now that I have abundant free time, I would really like to play on EQEMU.
I get to the server select screen, choose a server, the screens load up fine, but when it gets to the character select/create screen, all I have is a Euridite Male with Newbie [1 Warrior] named above him. The "create a new character" and "delete character" buttons have no response, and when I press "play" or "enter world", (i forget it says) the client crashes with the "client crashes" error box.
I am at a complete loss here. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks again!