I'm sure this is a completely irrelevant contribution, and is not relevent...but:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/foru...374056245&h=50
This describes how to use the old spell effects on EQLive. I tried this and it works very well. All the old effects work perfectly. This may be a server side thing, which of course we have no control of here.
Just a thought - not sure if this helps anyone reverse engineer anything.