*sigh* I can't beleive this one little overlooked peice threw me off this long... take a look at what my zone batch file content was...
Snippet fromt Boot3zones.bat
REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off
start zone9x akanon localhost 7995 localhost
start zone9x . localhost 7996 localhost
start zone9x . localhost 7997 localhost
exit
cls
REM:---------------END------------------------
2 stinking characters appended into 3 lines.. threw me off that long, instead of being zone9x (which was the zone server filename a bit ago) it should've been zone *slaps forehead*.. Ah well it's all working now, I'm happy heh All is right in the world of norrath again
-- StakFallT