Miscellaneous: Plane of Hate Revamp item drops - GM reply would be appreciated

[Keldjor]

This is about the Hate revamp and item drops, mainly focusing on Staff of Elemental Mastery Earth, being an item of highly contested for $$$ and just a huge headache overall. I've done some research and tried to be as accurate as possible w/ the little bit of searching I could do. Daybreak didn't keep any of the SoE archives before 4/14/04, Allakhazam.com still had them all and another site I found as well, http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/19992002.php
If it does end up being on the positive side, a change that was overlooked by accident, not only mages but other classes will benefit from this as well, if the items aren't setup properly atm.
Any GM/Server Admin response would be great appreciated and welcomed.