This was still causing crashes in some situations with 0.5.5rc2. I took and look, and posted findings here:
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13884 . Play around with it if you can. I can't get it to crash using that change. Note: I did not come across any previous changes to fix this problem as I was looking, but they may be elsewhere.
