Server Login Trouble

[merb]

Ok so recently I've been booting up my server but every time I do, neither myself nor any players can get past the character select screen. The world.exe and zone.exe logs don't show any problems, but every time I try to log in, I simply get the "Client Disconnected (not active in progress)" and then I get a "zone.exe has encountered a problem and needs to shut down". However when someone else tries to log in, I get a message that says something along the lines of the zone boot up being too slow and again, zone.exe encounters a problem. I've tried multiple characters on multiple accounts and nothing seems to work.

I'm using EQEmu-0.7.0-1102 and the .xml file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0">
<server>
	<world>
	    <shortname>darkwood</shortname>
	    <longname>DarkWood [Custom-Legit 1.5x Exp.]</longname>
	           
	<!-- Only specify these two if you really think you need to. -->
	    <!--<address>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</address>-->
	    <!--<localaddress>127.0.0.1</localaddress>-->
	   
	<!-- Loginserver information.  -->
	    <loginserver>
	        <host>eqemulator.net</host>
	        <port>5998</port>
	        <account></account>
	        <password></password>
	    </loginserver>

	    <!-- Sets the shared key used by zone/launcher to connect to world -->
	    <key>some long random string</key>

	    <!-- Enable and set the port for the HTTP service. -->
	    <http port="9080" enabled="true" mimefile="mime.types" />
	</world>

	<!-- Database configuration, replaces db.ini. -->
	<database>
	    <host>localhost</host>
	    <port>3306</port>
	    <username>xxxxx</username>
	    <password>xxxxx</password>
	    <db>ax_classic</db>
	</database>
</server>

I do of course have the correct IP and username/password. This problem has persisted for a while and it's becoming a bit frustrating :P

Thanks in advance for any help!

[merb]

This is one of the logs from when I try to log in:

[08.17. - 23:42:28] [WORLD__CLIENT] New connection from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4328, processing connection
[08.17. - 23:42:28] [WORLD__CLIENT] jabober: Logged in. Mode=(CharSel)
[08.17. - 23:42:28] [WORLD__CLIENT] jabober: LS Account #74408
[08.17. - 23:46:11] [WORLD__CLIENT] jabober: Attempting autobootup of nexus (152)
[08.17. - 23:46:18] [WORLD__ZONE] [5] Setting to 'nexus' (152)
[08.17. - 23:46:18] [WORLD__CLIENT] jabober: Entering zone nexus (152)
[08.17. - 23:46:18] [WORLD__ZONE] [5] [nexus] Broadcasting a world time update
[08.17. - 23:46:18] [WORLD__ZONE] [5] [nexus] Setting to 'nexus' (152)
[08.17. - 23:46:18] [WORLD__CLIENT] jabober: Sending client to zone nexus (152) at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:7001
[08.17. - 23:46:19] [WORLD__CLIENT] jabober: Client disconnected (not active in process)
[08.17. - 23:46:36] [WORLD__ZONELIST] Removing zoneserver #5 at :7001
[08.17. - 23:46:36] [WORLD__ZONELIST] Hold Zones mode is ON - rebooting lost zone
[08.17. - 23:46:37] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zones: dynamic_02 reported state STOPPED (1 starts)
[08.17. - 23:46:47] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zones: dynamic_02 reported state STARTED (2 starts)
[08.17. - 23:46:51] [WORLD__ZONE] New TCP connection from 127.0.0.1:4333
[08.17. - 23:46:51] [WORLD__CONSOLE] New zoneserver #6 from 127.0.0.1:4333
[08.17. - 23:46:51] [WORLD__ZONE] [6] Zone started with name dynamic_02 by launcher zones
[08.17. - 23:46:51] [WORLD__ZONE] [6] Auto zone port configuration.  Telling zone to use port 7005
[08.17. - 23:48:01] [WORLD__LS] Connecting to login server...
[08.17. - 23:48:02] [WORLD__LS_ERR] Could not connect to login server: TCPConnection::Connect(): connect() failed. Error: 10061
[08.17. - 23:48:11] [WORLD__LS] Connecting to login server...
[08.17. - 23:48:12] [WORLD__LS_ERR] Could not connect to login server: TCPConnection::Connect(): connect() failed. Error: 10061
[08.17. - 23:48:21] [WORLD__LS] Connecting to login server...
[08.17. - 23:48:22] [WORLD__LS_ERR] Could not connect to login server: TCPConnection::Connect(): connect() failed. Error: 10061
[08.17. - 23:48:31] [WORLD__LS] Connecting to login server...
[08.17. - 23:48:32] [WORLD__LS_ERR] Could not connect to login server: TCPConnection::Connect(): connect() failed. Error: 10061

Directly after this, zone.exe crashed... I've also noticed that recently I've been getting this message when starting up my server:

[08.17. - 23:41:36] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to find rule 'Spells:BardSpellAggroMod'
[08.17. - 23:41:36] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to interpret rule record for Spells:BardSpellAggroMod
[08.17. - 23:41:36] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to find rule 'Spells:PetSpellAggroMod'
[08.17. - 23:41:36] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to interpret rule record for Spells:PetSpellAggroMod
[08.17. - 23:41:36] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to find rule 'Spells:SpellAggroModifier'
[08.17. - 23:41:36] [RULES__ERROR] Unable to interpret rule record for Spells:SpellAggroModifier

[Angelox]

If you're updating the emulator and not the database tables that are newly required, this will happen. you need to follow up on the changelogs

[merb]

Thanks Angelox, I'll get on that next chance I get

[Kilralpine]

Would this occur on the newest PEQ build, i guess what i am asking is; are all of these changes incorporated in the "out of the box" peq build?

-Reason i ask is because im suffering from this same issue, but only from external IP adresses....i can load the game fine from the box that runs it; yet for some reason, i couldnt get outsiders in
-I decided to reload a blank PEQ DB build, and re-checked my ports and it worked....BUT ONLY for like 30 mins
-The ONLY thing that i changed were adding a few NPCS in tutorial

Any ideas for either of us?