Way to bypass login server?

[qwertyo]

I've been playing on Krusher's for awhile, but I always have trouble with the login server. First it was the eqgame.exe crash, now I just have a lot of timeouts and problems with the server selection screen. Is there a way to start up EQ and directly connect to the server instead of opening up EQ and picking through the server list? I read something on a post I can't find now about using the command prompt or run to do that but forcing the game to start up and connect to a specific host ip. Also, any idea why the direct connect option on the login screen would switch to a server I've literally never logged into? I just hit that and it got me in, but to a server with no one on and that I'd never played on before... sort of strange. Thanks for any advice in advance