It is behaving this way because of this line in the patch:
Rogean: Velious UI is now the default for character select and characters without an INI file.
You can get the old UI back (UI 1 from the link above) by copying another characters UI and the second name file from that same character and rename them to the character who has the default Velious UI. Paste them back into the eq folder and it will give you the old UI on the new character.
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