Looks like some neat stuff, but patchers have been somewhat of a debated topic on if they should be allowed to be discussed/shared on this site or not. It would be great if we could come up with something official, but I think the main question is the legality of it all. Patching files is a gray area at the very least around here.
I think there are valid points to both sides of the argument. It would be nice if the emulator site here had something that would create the shortcut and maybe edit the eqhost.txt file automatically so new players would only have to download a file and run it in order to play on the Public EQEmu servers for the first time. I can make a batch file to edit the eqhost.txt file easy enough, but making a good shortcut that would work for everyone is a bit more complex via batch files only. Being able to switch from server to server that each use custom files without having to run from separate directories would be good as well.
At the same time, distributing at least some certain client files (eqgame.exe for example) is pretty-clearly illegal and not even allowed to be discussed on these forums. While an official patcher wouldn't mean that EQEmu was actually providing these illegal files, it would mean that we were providing a way for people to potentially distribute them easily. An analogy to this would be like the company that made Napster to originally distribute music illegally getting into legal issues. And we try to steer as clear as possible from any legal conflicts.
I just don't want you to waste too much time on something that might not be allowed to be distributed or discussed here or something. Drakelord made a nice universal server patcher a while back that seemed to be nearly completed here:
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=28269
He even took it as far as asking SOE legal about it, to which he got a reply saying that they are not at liberty to say either way if it is ok or not.