Dumpster, if you are getting windowed action, are you using eqw?
To set up a shortcut to play in fullscreen, right click on the eqgame.exe in your everquest folder. Click "send to desktop (create shortcut)". Find the shortcut on the desktop, and edit the following, and use YOUR everquest folder, not my example:
C:\everquestfolder\eqgame.exe
"C:\everquestfolder\eqgame.exe" patchme
Use patchme outside of the quotes. That should make it fullscreen.
About it giving 1017 errors, you said you patched to eqlive? Did you patch to eqemu patcher after that? If not, go to the
main site and download the patcher. Install it into your everquest folder (it's very important that you install it directly into your eq folder that has eqgame.exe in it) and run it.