Newbie question for you pros

[Sylaei]

Sorry DDude11, I didn't realize the post above was there. Shoulda looked. I don't see anything in the latest eqemu_config.xml that is wrong. I have these lines uncommented in mine but I don't think this has anything to do with your issue.

<!-- Only specify these two if you really think you need to.  (read: You don't) -->
        <!-- <address>192.168.1.100</address> -->
        <!-- <localaddress>127.0.0.1</localaddress> -->

You said that you found another copy of the eqemu_config.xml file on your drive, is it possible that you have multiple world.exe files and for some reason one is located in your path and windows is trying that one?

I am at at a loss, can we see some more of the log file around the error?

[DDude11]

i truely appriciate all your help it was the weirdest thing i figured it out today and now everything works great and im the proud owner of a server haha all i had to do was take out the password in my eqemu_config file and try and run the start.bat and when i did that it would not let me connect but at least it recognized me as root and not eq so then i went back to the config file and put my password back in and it worked great lol. just a weird problem of trial and error i suppose lol but hey if you are well versed in running a server and the things you can do as a gm take a look at my latest sad thread haha
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=29756
thanks again