For the people who think there was weekly maintenance, I don't necessarily disagree with you, but here's the evidence I was going off of:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...ches-1999.html
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2000-1.html
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2000-2.html
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2001-1.html
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2001-2.html
These are pretty thorough. Could it be that hardware maintenance (which brought the servers down) isn't included in these links? Can anyone find evidence of hardware maintenance performed on all servers which isn't included? I was on Rodcet Nife too, and I don't remember patches/maintenance being weekly, however I also didn't raid so it didn't affect me as much, so it's entirely possible I'm just not remembering correctly.
I really think it's important to have an accurate count of the number of times servers were brought down on Live, for the idea of patch day repops to be fair and classic..
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You're ommiting random sever crashes (which happened, well randomly) and cases where the server had to be brought back down after a patch to fix something that was broken in the patch (which happened about every other patch).
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For the second part, see the links above - there are patches where they fix things from previous patches (like the second patch fixing Summon Corpse I believe). Sure I'm omitting server crashes because they aren't documented there, to my knowledge - should I really include server crashes? We would never repop mobs here if the server were crashed. edit: wait - were you talking about patches on Live or p99?