I've been following this server and have yet to roll a character on it, but I played a monk on PEQ server and there were severe problems with the monk skills as well. I think they've been fixed. Check out the Monk forum:
http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=42
and my old thread there
http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4914