[Zodl]

Hey Banolil,
I did this a while ago so my memory isn't 100% and I did a few things wrong, but I can name some of the things:
The biggest mistake was I gave conflicting ports to the emu, I think I was telling it to use 5999 and 5998, not all setup guides use the same port (the eqhost file in the EQ directory, Host=eqemulator.net:5998 or whatever it is) and that port (the 5998') I believe must be consistent throughout.
I found out that I had an incompatible version of Perl, I keep installers for 5.10 and 5.8 on my machine, it seems like the bot build (1316) used 5.10 and the normal build (1410) used 5.8 - but this probably wasn't causing the world.exe to crash
I setup a host file again in Windows 7, it is done the same as in Windows XP - I don't know if that helped, but it's one of the things I did.

The real solution for me was to go through a setup guide line by line carefully to look for small errors like those listed. On a side note, I never got the mobs to quit conning indifferent, so now I'm trying to compile my own build, I suspect the compiled binaries available are causing the indifferent issue.

Edit p.s. I just remembered I also wanted to get a better understanding of eqemu_config.xml (I know it's just xml) so I decided to type it all out, I suspect I made errors in there, wrong keystrokes - maybe I did 1 thing really wrong, when I went through again I just did a copy/paste from the setup guide; I think the copy paste will be safe 90% of the time.