Two fold login issue

[nrokchi]

Okay, after a long time of forum diving and playing around with with given wiki settings and trying other builds, I still have not been able to resolve a couple of issues.

Firstly, when I attempt to log into the eqemu login server, it accepts the username/password, moves me forward to the news screen and crashes. The news screen is currently displaying (for me) information about Halloween 2005.

Second, when trying to run minilogin, the client login page hangs on "Connecting to Login Server, please wait..." it fails to go any further. There is no indication that I have lost connection, nor is there an error being spit out.

Client side, I have unpatched EQ Titanium fresh out of the box installed. My counterpart and I followed the wiki install of that section to a T, both for running your own server and connecting to the eqemu server.

[LoginServer]
Host=eqemulator.net:5998

and...

[LoginServer]
Host=192.168.0.2:5999

Looking at the server now: the server is running on a Linux build; Red Hat 9. It has MySQL 4.1 installed. All files, as indicated by the wiki, were downloaded, moved, and extracted. Using wine to run minilogin from the linux box, but we did try it on the windows box with the same result.

Here's the LoginServer.ini file info:

[LoginServer]
loginserver=127.0.0.1
loginport=5999
worldname=My Minilogin
worldaddress=127.0.0.1
locked=false
account=
password=

[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=
Unavailzone=

[ChatChannelServer]
worldshortname=
chataddress=
chatport=

[LoginConfig]
ServerMode=Minilogin
ServerPort=5999
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... and the eqemu_config.xlm

<?xml version="1.0">
<server>
        <world>
                <shortname>minilogin</shortname>
                <longname>My Minilogin</longname>

                <!-- Only specify these two if you really think you need to. -->
                <address>192.168.0.2</address>
                <localaddress>127.0.0.1</localaddress>

                <!-- Loginserver information.  -->
                <loginserver>
                        <host>127.0.0.1</host>
                        <port>5999</port>
                        <account></account>
                        <password></password>
                </loginserver>

                <unlocked />
                <!-- Sets the shared key used by zone/launcher to connect to world -->
                <key>death to all who support the swarm</key>

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

        <zones>
                <defaultstatus>20</defaultstatus>
                <ports low="7000" high="7100" />
        </zones>
                <!-- Database configuration, replaces db.ini. -->
        <database>
                <host>localhost</host>
                <port>3306</port>
                <username>*****</username>
                <password>*****</password>
                <db>eqemu</db>
        </database>
        <launcher>
                <logprefix>logs/zone-</logprefix>
                <logsuffix>.log</logsuffix>
                <exe>./zone</exe>
                <timers restart="10000" reterminate="10000" initial="20000" inte
rval="2000" />
        </launcher>
</server>
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Are there any suggestions that can be offered to resolve either issue?