[rcrowell]

I found the problem. It is indeed with the 0.3.7 Zone.exe file. I can't explain the mysterious exploding of the executable, but I...

1) Reinstalled W2K on laptop.
2) Reinstalled MYSQL
3) Reinstalled EQemu
4) Configured
5) Boom. When I tested the install the Zone.exe file, it again blew up bigger than life.
6) Got fed up with not having EQ... so I made a back up of the 0.3.7 Zone.exe file that is 598,016 bytes, and copied the 0.3.6 Zone.exe that is 593,920 bytes into the EQemu directory.
7) 0.3.6 Zone.exe booted up and ran successfully on Window 2000 the very first time.

I'm a newbie here, but I am a software engineer and would recommend someone to take a second look at the changes made to 0.3.7 Zone.exe. Appears to be some kind on inconsistancy on Windows 2000 with a FRESH install of 0.3.7.

Again, I'm not trying to overstep my bounds or anything. I just simply want to shed some light on what APPEARS to be a small bug. Whether it is a bug or not is not the point... I only want to help everyone in some small way (as a matter of fact, I HOPE i'm doing something wrong so that maybe it won't be a bug).

rcrowell