I eventually did crack and just go that route. I now have a full live install ready. I ran into yet another issue though. I went with the "copy all of live over and dont replace anything" step at the bottom of the guide (
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...ssingFilesList, swapped over the dbstr_us.txt (Which did have to replace something), launched the game, loaded my monk, and had a bunch of weird abilities in my combat abilities window instead, all with incorrect strings. My normal disciplines and stuff are fine, but on my titanium client I have stuff like rapid jab, heart strike, ect. They just aren't agreeing with this client at all. I got them to work that one time copying my titanium stuff over, but they wouldn't actually activate.
I wish I could just take the ui features from this, and the new zones, and run with titanium :p That never has issues.