Guest,
Thanks alot for the pointer. It helped. Now I can login to my server properly as can external players. BUT!!!! I still have a problem. I'm still getting the issue listed above, where I log in, create my cahracter then hit Enter World. It acts like its going to let me in, then BOOM I'm back at the login screen that pops up when you first load EQ. If you look at the jpg here you can see the error message my server is getting.
http://soznet.net/problem2.jpg
This damn problem is a biatch! I thought the 1017 was bad, this one seems to be more annoying.