Please Read - Shouldn't be too hard.

[hayward6]

This isn't the answer you wanted but...

If your client is patched to live, you are broken. end of story... it's sad but true.

If I am seeing this right your just looking to login to another persons server and you really wont need to know anything about SQL or how the Emulator works. You just need to login to their server following the guides for that.

The biggest problem your stuck at now is the "patched to live" problem. Unfortunatly SOE changes something major just about every patch to keep us on our toes. To even ask about how you can "backpatch" on these forums is against the rules of the forum and deffinetly moving us further out of our happy gray area of not altering the SOE Lisenced Client.

But stay active on the forums "check them every day" and I would say the best thing to do would be to patch to live right now and write down that date. Then just wait for the OK from the DEV's here about a server that will run with the patch date you have,

Also it is allways a very good idea to make a seperate folder for EQ to use with EQEMU, that way you wont run the risk of patching it and you can still enjoy EQ Live like alot of us here still do.