I'm not sure if the fix made it into 0.5.2 final... but i know in the latest 0.5.3-DR1 (before we started fixing for eqlive patch), theres a new variable you can add in the database to start people in a zone..
INSERT INTO variables (varname, value, information, ts) VALUES ('startzone', 'arena', '', NULL);
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