yet another n00b begging for help

[Grimtooth]

well im sure you all get tired of seeing these posts, but i just dont know what else to do... i have searched till my eyes bleed, read, and re-read wiki's... and all to no avail.

Basically (and i HATE to say this, you're all goin to love to hear it) I dont even know what the freaking problem is because im not getting an error message..

when i click on my startup batch file, the first shell window opens fine, the second shell opens and closes so fast that i can't even read what it says..
(i tried for about 15 minutes to double click and hit print screen at the same time, but couldnt get a pic to read the box lol)

the original shell then just does the "wait for world to finish loading..." text that was inserted as part of the wiki tutorial, hits and the next "Pause".

and then when i hit a button another shell breifly flashes on the screen and dissapears, once again, much too fast to read (i took out the cls and added some extra pauses in case there was anything there that i might be able to read, but nothing)

finally, i hit another button to pass the next pause, and the original shell closes...

once again i apologize for the fact that i dont have a discreet Error to ask for help with, but then again... if i did i might not have to post here at all...

Grim




i used this guide to set everthing up: http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...ka=ws992mysql5

for reference: (going along with the wiki)
-CVS: installed

-Perl: installed (v. 5.8.8 )
-DBI = installed
-DBD-mysql = installed
-IO_Stringy = installed

-MySQL: installed (v. 5.0.xx)
-Load_system = sourced (PEQ)
-Load_player = sourced (PEQ)

-Maps / newmaps = unzipped to eqemu\maps\*.map

*************** INI ********** ***

###Your current configuration is as follows:

loginserver.ini:
[LoginServer]
loginserver=127.0.0.1
loginport=5998
worldname=My Minilogin
worldaddress=127.0.0.1
locked=false
account=
password=

[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=
Unavailzone=
[ChatChannelServer]

worldshortname=
chataddress=
chatport=

[LoginConfig]
ServerMode=Minilogin
ServerPort=5999

***********Config******************

?xml version="1.0">
<server>
<world>
<shortname>Grimtest</shortname>
<longname>Grims testing toy</longname>

<!-- Only specify these two if you really think you need to. -->
<!--<address>24.124.50.221</address>-->
<!--<localaddress>127.0.0.1</localaddress>-->

<!-- Loginserver information. -->
<loginserver>
<host>eqemulator.net</host>
<port>5999</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>root</username>
<password> *not gonna post this* </password>
<db>peq</db>
</database>
</server>

************Batch***************

@echo off
start world.exe
pause
echo Wait for World to finish loading... Press Enter when done.
pause
start eqlaunch.exe zone
exit

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if anyone requires any other information to help with this i'll be glad to pop that up here as well...