Ok, I've search around for a bit, and see other people posting logs of their world working perfectly fine with this autobootup stuff (honestly never noticed it before), but I just updated to the latest SVN tonight, compiled, and tried the new server. Updated SQL stuff, too btw.
Everything runs fine, but when a char tries to Enter World (default zone is tutorialb), the world spams over and over:
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] account1: Attempting autobootup of tutorialb (189:0)
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] account1: Attempting autobootup of tutorialb (189:0)
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] account1: Attempting autobootup of tutorialb (189:0)
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] account1: Attempting autobootup of tutorialb (189:0)
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] account1: Attempting autobootup of tutorialb (189:0)
until the client sees an error, and some message about a personal instance of the zone is still loading.
I've searched the changelog.txt for any reference to personalized instances being implemented, but I can't see one (of course all changes are being put into the changelog, I am sure

)
So, what's my problem now? Man, I've never had so much trouble going up a few revs from SVN... probably because for 3 years there were no code changes to speak of
TIA,
-J