Ok, I rebooted, no change.
I dumped the player database and rebuilt it, and now I no longer get the 'you've been disconnected' message.
I now get an in-game pop-up window that says 'That Zone is unavailable' and get tossed back to the character selection screen.
Here are a couple excerpts from my eqemu_debug_world log
Thanks for the help thus far, Tharkun. If you have more input for this problem, I remain quite open to suggestions.
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[09.06. - 16:37:16] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_debug_world_3012.log
[09.06. - 16:37:16] [WORLD__INIT] Loading server configuration..
[09.06. - 16:37:16] [WORLD__INIT] Log settings loaded from log.ini
[09.06. - 16:37:16] [WORLD__INIT] CURRENT_WORLD_VERSION:EQEMu 0.8.0
[09.06. - 16:37:16] [WORLD__INIT] Connecting to MySQL...
[09.06. - 16:37:16] [WORLD__INIT] Starting HTTP world service...
[09.06. - 16:37:16] [WORLD__HTTP] Loaded mime types from mime.types
[09.06. - 16:37:16] [WORLD__INIT] Loading variables..
[09.06. - 16:37:16] [WORLD__INIT] Loading zones..
[09.06. - 16:37:16] [WORLD__INIT] Clearing groups..
[09.06. - 16:37:16] [WORLD__INIT] Clearing raids..
[09.06. - 16:37:16] [WORLD__INIT] Loading items..
[09.06. - 16:37:17] [WORLD__INIT_ERR] Error: Could not load item data. But ignoring
[09.06. - 16:37:17] [WORLD__INIT] Loading guilds..
[09.06. - 16:37:17] [RULES__CHANGE] Loading rule set 'default' (1)
[09.06. - 16:37:17] [RULES__CHANGE] Set rule GM:MinStatusToZoneAnywhere to value 250
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[09.06. - 16:37:17] [WORLD__INIT] Purging expired instances
[09.06. - 16:37:17] [WORLD__INIT] Zone (TCP) listener started.
[09.06. - 16:37:17] [WORLD__INIT] Client (UDP) listener started.
[09.06. - 16:37:17] [NET__IDENTIFY] Registered patch 6.2
[09.06. - 16:37:17] [NET__IDENTIFY] Registered patch Titanium
[09.06. - 16:37:17] [NET__IDENTIFY] Registered patch SoF
[09.06. - 16:37:17] [WORLD__LS] Connecting to login server...
[09.06. - 16:37:17] [WORLD__LS] Connected to Loginserver: 192.168.10.2:5998
[09.06. - 16:37:32] [WORLD__ZONE] New TCP connection from 127.0.0.1:1140
[09.06. - 16:37:32] [WORLD__CONSOLE] New launcher from 127.0.0.1:1140
[09.06. - 16:37:32] [WORLD__LAUNCH] Adding pending launcher 1
[09.06. - 16:37:37] [WORLD__LAUNCH] Launcher Identified itself as 'zone'. Loading zone list.
[09.06. - 16:37:37] [WORLD__LAUNCH] Removing pending launcher 1. Adding zone to active list.
[09.06. - 16:37:39] [WORLD__CLIENT] New connection from 192.168.10.2:1142
[09.06. - 16:37:39] [NET__IDENT_TRACE] 192.168.10.2:1142: First opcode 0x4dd0 did not match expected 0x2792
[09.06. - 16:37:39] [NET__IDENT_TRACE] 192.168.10.2:1142: Tried patch 6.2_world, and it did not match.
[09.06. - 16:37:39] [NET__IDENT_TRACE] 192.168.10.2:1142: First opcode 0x4dd0 did not match expected 0x2ec9
[09.06. - 16:37:39] [NET__IDENT_TRACE] 192.168.10.2:1142: Tried patch 6.2_zone, and it did not match.
[09.06. - 16:37:39] [NET__IDENT_TRACE] 192.168.10.2:1142: First opcode matched 0x4dd0 and length matched 464
[09.06. - 16:37:39] [NET__IDENTIFY] Identified stream 192.168.10.2:1142 with signature Titanium_world
[09.06. - 16:37:39] [WORLD__CLIENT] Checking inbound connection 192.168.10.2 against BannedIPs table
[09.06. - 16:37:39] [WORLD__CLIENT] Connection 192.168.10.2 PASSED banned IPs check. Processing connection.
[09.06. - 16:37:39] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Logged in. Mode=(CharSel)
[09.06. - 16:37:39] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: LS Account #2
[09.06. - 16:37:42] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_01 reported state STARTED (1 starts)
[09.06. - 16:38:02] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_02 reported state STARTED (1 starts)
[09.06. - 16:38:04] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_03 reported state STARTED (1 starts)
[09.06. - 16:38:06] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_04 reported state STARTED (1 starts)
[09.06. - 16:38:08] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_05 reported state STARTED (1 starts)
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Name approval request. Name=Enchantrix, race=High Elf, class=Enchanter
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Character creation request from Ryan LS#2 (192.168.10.2:1142) :
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Name: Enchantrix
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Race: 5 Class: 14 Gender: 1 Deity: 396 Start zone: 10
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: STR STA AGI DEX WIS INT CHA Total
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: 55 65 85 70 95 122 100 592
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Face: 0 Eye colors: 8 8
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Hairstyle: 2 Haircolor: 5
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Beard: 255 Beardcolor: 255
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Validating char creation info...
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Found 0 errors in character creation request
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Current location: felwitheb -826.00, 555.00, 4.00
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Bind location: felwitheb -826.00, 555.00, 4.00
[09.06. - 16:39:29] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Character creation successful: Enchantrix
[09.06. - 16:39:30] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Attempting autobootup of tutorialb (189:0)
[09.06. - 16:39:30] [WORLD__CLIENT_ERR] Ryan: No zoneserver available to boot up.
[09.06. - 16:39:36] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Attempting autobootup of tutorialb (189:0)
[09.06. - 16:39:36] [WORLD__CLIENT_ERR] Ryan: No zoneserver available to boot up.
[09.06. - 16:39:39] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Attempting autobootup of tutorialb (189:0)
[09.06. - 16:39:39] [WORLD__CLIENT_ERR] Ryan: No zoneserver available to boot up.
[09.06. - 16:39:50] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Attempting autobootup of tutorialb (189:0)
[09.06. - 16:39:50] [WORLD__CLIENT_ERR] Ryan: No zoneserver available to boot up.
[09.06. - 16:39:52] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Attempting autobootup of tutorialb (189:0)
[09.06. - 16:39:52] [WORLD__CLIENT_ERR] Ryan: No zoneserver available to boot up.
[09.06. - 16:39:56] [WORLD__CLIENT_ERR] Ryan: Received unknown EQApplicationPacket
[09.06. - 16:39:56] [WORLD__CLIENT_ERR] [OpCode OP_WorldLogout (0x771

Size=0]
[09.06. - 16:39:56] [WORLD__CLIENT] Ryan: Client disconnected (not active in process)
[09.06. - 16:42:44] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_01 reported state STOPPED (1 starts)
[09.06. - 16:42:56] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_01 reported state STARTED (2 starts)
[09.06. - 16:43:04] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_02 reported state STOPPED (1 starts)
[09.06. - 16:43:06] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_03 reported state STOPPED (1 starts)
[09.06. - 16:43:08] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_04 reported state STOPPED (1 starts)
[09.06. - 16:43:10] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_05 reported state STOPPED (1 starts)
[09.06. - 16:43:16] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_02 reported state STARTED (2 starts)
[09.06. - 16:43:18] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_03 reported state STARTED (2 starts)
[09.06. - 16:43:20] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_04 reported state STARTED (2 starts)
[09.06. - 16:43:22] [WORLD__LAUNCH] zone: dynamic_05 reported state STARTED (2 starts)