+1 for playing EQ in 1999; so I should be relevant, right?
Azure Sleeves in December 2001 (one month after your false recollection):
https://web.archive.org/web/20011225.../item.asp?Id=2
Note that there is no focus.
The first archived page on Azure Sleeves which is archived that I could find with the Focus applied was June 2003 (though the focus was added prior to that - it's just that the Azure Sleeves page wasn't successfully archived until then, that I could find anyway).
https://web.archive.org/web/20030619.../item.asp?Id=2
/Thread over.