On my private server (The Village) I have a player with a character that crashes the zone as soon as it plays, and I believe it is the same issue as reported by
http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2055
If I restore the character to a backup, it is able to play as normal so there is something in the character data in the DB that is causing zones to crash. I am not able to see anything pertaining to this in the log files. I am about to increase debugging levels and try to track this problem down but I wanted to post this issue here now in case anyone else has seen it - and of course, if there's a fix already it'd save me a lot of work.
If anyone wants a DB dump of the character to try and reproduce on their own server I'll be happy to oblige, send me a PM. I'm running with the latest version 944 but it also exhibits the same problem on 942.
Paul.