World.exe crashes

[Zodl]

Woot, I'm back again.

Three days ago I installed Windows 7 Pro. (x64) onto my PC (AMD Phenom II) replacing Windows XP - and wiping out my hard drives while I was at it.

The issue I am having is that when I run start.bat, I receive a message box: World.exe application error - The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b) click okay to close the application.

A Sample Log:
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[05.16. - 20:17:05] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_debug_3600.log
[05.16. - 20:17:05] [LAUNCHER__INIT] Loading server configuration..
[05.16. - 20:17:06] [NET__WORLD] WorldConnection connect: Connecting to the server localhost:9000 failed: TCPConnection::Connect(): connect() failed. Error: 10061
[05.16. - 20:17:06] [LAUNCHER__ERROR] worldserver.Connect() FAILED! Will retry.
[05.16. - 20:17:06] [LAUNCHER__INIT] Starting main loop...

In the past I've installed EQEmu between 5 and 8 times successfully, but usually I'll do something wrong in the process. I'll cover where I fear I may have made a mistake and what I know I've done right:
Everything concerning MySQL, subversion, perl, (quests and databases) I'm confident I've done correctly.
I am not familiar with this new EQEmu Login Server that has replaced miniLogin or what my dyndns.address is (I play locally alone, when I want to play with my friends a different guy hosts) so I've been replacing localhost or 127.0.0.1 interchangeably everywhere I see dyndns.
I have used 2 walkthroughs:
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=ValesEQ
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...kka=ws1129r222
The first one being more current and recommended by Trevius; the second one being one that I have used with success in the past - and I've tried to use both individually as well as merge them into one. I get the world.exe error using all setups. I have not edited my "hosts" in %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts like the second guide suggests - because I'm not sure if it's there in Windows 7 (Still learning Win 7, I haven't even looked) But I have done all appropriate replacements of localhost/127.0.0.1 where "eqs.starspark" used to be

Any help would be appreciated and any extra information can be provided upon request. Thanks!