for anyone having trouble running a server...

[TIM2]

After messing around with all this for a day or two, I finally got things running today. The problem was I could create a character, but once I went to enter the world, it would just kick me back to the server screen.

I finally fixed it by editing the boot5zones.bat, and changing localhost/127.0.0.1 to the internal ip of my server (192.168.0.1). Apparently the world.exe sends the client the ip of the zone based on what you have it set to in that .bat file, so if you're running a server on a computer other the one running EQ it will try connecting to the wrong machine and time out.

Hope that helps at least a few people having problems.