Sounds like you may have an incompatible version of the client. Check out this page and download the prog. Extract to your EQ directory and run it.
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...kka=EQVerCheck
Hit Calculate. It should bring up something similiar to this:
Scanning Files...
Reading eqgame.exe...
Reading EQGraphicsDX9.dll...
Reading eqmain.dll...
Reading EQGFX_DX8.dll...
Reading mss32.dll...
Checksums Generated. Generating Verson Strings...
Version Number: SEQ45867
Extended Version Number: EQ3C903E04AB2F04B577F25EA81E2727A6B8291587
Now hit Suggest LS:
It should tell you if you have a compatible client or not and if so what version of EQEmu you are compatible with. If you have the pre 9/13 patch it shows this:
EQVerCheck has identified this EQ Version, SEQ45867, to be compatible with the 0.6.2 through 0.7.0 EQEmu server releases, and is available at the eqemulator.net:5998 loginserver.