The problem is that around 2001, or the era of the DX8 upgrade, many forms of transparency in EQ were broken. If you look at a tradeskill oven, you will no longer see the fire inside. Many lanterns ingame no longer show the flame inside. And, as you've noticed, the helms don't appear correctly.
This might be fixable by editing the texture file itself. But the texture files themselves have not changed since 1999. Only the way the game "recognizes" these transparent areas has changed. Even physically editing the files may not help.
And as many things, this is client controlled, and not something we can really fix.
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