Guards not defending pc's

[watcher001]

From what I can see my factions are working and mobs are aggroing within range. But the guards will not assist a pc when they are fighting in range. Example is scruffy walking right up between the guards and attacking me. The guards don't help at any level. My fac is maxed for qey guards and I can't see any related error on the zone.exe or world.exe (though doors aren't imped on my server cause I hate them and it's for lan). Is there something missing to be sourced to my db? I'm using precompiles winserver 6.0 no perl (perl never worked correctly and was messing up my zone.exe regardless of how many times it tols me scalor was installed) Plz help