Well, ended up uninstalling(and making sure there was nothing left over) and reinstalling again, replacing the files and whatnot and giving it another go.
turns out I again get stuck after trying to log in a character, I'm really not sure where I'm going wrong here, i reinstalling twice, I'm able to log into other servers, and it was working just fine the other day.
Curiously i've had a look around my EQ folder and found in DBG ...
2009-12-02 13:04:27 Failed to open C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest\GlobalDRK_chr.s3d.
And I also stumbled across ..
2009-12-02 13:06:23 Zone Connect -- 2 -- Sending MSG_EQ_ADDPLAYER
2009-12-02 13:06:25 Zone Connect -- 3 -- Received MSG_SEND_PC
2009-12-02 13:06:25 Zone Connect -- 4 -- Received MSG_EQ_ADDPLAYER
2009-12-02 13:06:25 Received our EQPlayer from zone. MSG_EQ_NETPLAYERBUFF is next.
2009-12-02 13:06:25 Player = Ogru, zone = Oggok
2009-12-02 13:10:38 TIMED OUT WAITING FOR MY EQPlayer (in GetZoneInfoFromNetwork())!! top = 75520112
2009-12-02 13:10:38
2009-12-02 13:10:38 Networking: Connection Closed [0] with 0 pending bytes.
2009-12-02 13:10:38 nError is TRUE at C:\EQ\EverQuest\EverQuest.cpp:20261
2009-12-02 13:10:38
2009-12-02 13:10:38 Exiting normally.
Maybe this is a bit more useful. Who knows, I'm just desperate to get back in game
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*edit* had this just a minute ago. because of the time out I got before, I decided i'd take my laptop to the router insted, and that maybe wireless was creating an issue, and this time I got....
2009-12-02 13:26:52 Networking: connection terminated [client
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]isconnectReasonOtherSideTerminated,server: DisconnectReasonNone]
2009-12-02 13:26:52 disconnected at C:\EQ\EverQuest\EverQuest.cpp:17153 (char. select) DisconnectReasonOtherSideTerminated,DisconnectReas onNone
I'm not sure if it's my computer having an issue or it's the server having an issue with me loading in characters now..