Can enter game, but nothing works correctly

[KrimsonHaste]

I just installed the game and made all of the changes I was supposed to, or so I thought. I can create a character and enter the world. But once I enter I can see the ooc/auction chat I missed while loading, but no new chat goes through. I try to attack an npc and nothing happens, but notice I still leave corpses. If I try and mem a spell my inventory and spell book no longer works. I can't hail any npcs and get no responses in ooc. My UI looks like its way too advanced for classic eq so I'm guessing thats where the problem is. I have a compass an eq button a guild managment window etc. I try to /loadskin default 1 but I get an error message. Even if I try to load the UI through the options menu the same problem happens. Any thoughts/ideas? Thanks