Server select screen blank, crashing when trying to enter game

[Autumnbow]

Sorry for having a bunch of threads here right now, I've just been running into more and more strange issues and I want the title to have something to do with my current problems :P

Okay, I was crashing:

I'm crashing, or something, when I zone or enter the game. The loading screen comes up, the bar loads and goes away, but the screen stays on that loading picture. I can't close eqgame.exe, even with task manager. When I try, it tells me "The operation could not be completed. Access is denied." And if I open up a new instance of EQ, it seems to think that I still have a character logged in and it tells me to wait a while. Each time it happens I have to restart my computer if I want to play the game :/

So I looked at the "crashing while zoning" thread, and tried some of those things. After playing for a short while with WinEQ2, it crashed again, and then I started crashing like above whenever I would select a character to play. Then I tried disabled my firewall, and after that the server select screen was blank, and each and every time I clicked play in the EQEmu launcher, it would patch the spells and delete the .eqg files. So I tried to reinstall the game, and ran the Duxa recommended thing (not playing with WinEQ2 at all, thinking it messed up the files somehow), and was able to get past server select into my characters. Then I selected a character, and the game just closed entirely, like right away. So I go back in, it downloads things and deletes things, and now server select is blank once more.

If I wait for a while at the blank server select screen, it says "Error - A timeout occurred".

I've taken a step back somehow, and I'm at a loss :/