The best fix that worked for me and my setup (a WinXP SP 3 machine w/ Nvidia card).
Entered the game, opened up the game options panel, selected Display, moved the Gamma slider to 100. Closed the options panel, camped the character out normally to the character select screen, exited the client from there normally with a logout. Once I was back on Desktop, I restarted my computer.
On my desktop once more, I right clicked on it to bring up my quick Windows display menu and selected NVidia control panel. Under the Display portion of the control panel I clicked on 'adjust desktop color settings'. From here I moved my Gamma from the normal 100 setting to 135.
I did install the F.lux program that was linked earlier in this thread and now I start it. I've set the 'daytime' and 'at night' settings slider bubbles all the way to the right and closed the tab.
At this point I can play the game with my UI and chat letter text at the same brightness and quality I had before. When I'm done playing the game and I'm back on my desktop, I can pull up the Nvidia panel again and take my gamma back from 135 to 100 for a normal appearance.
This is a super stupid ghetto way of keeping my UI + text looking the way before this fix, but I'll cope. I've decided to just set up a dual boot Win 7 / Win XP partition on my gaming computer and have the Win XP boot be solely for EQ use, so all of the above isn't too troublesome for me.
I really hope this helps others. It would be better if the whole thing was reverted so that the global Gamma change didn't take out the UI+ chat as a blanket effect.
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