Emusharemem.dll/world.exe crash problems

[Drawde]

I've been trying to solve this problem since 4.3 was released and still haven't had any luck,
so wondered if anyone else could help.

Basically when starting up world.exe I get the following error:
LoadEmuShareMemDLL:: Load() failed error=120
Error: Could not load item data

World.exe then quits. I get a similar error with zone.exe.
If you start up the exes from Explorer rather than a command line prompt, their window will close too quickly for
you to read the error message.

I have found that the 4.4dr1 files Trumpcard e-mailed me a while ago (the ones I posted along with my DB)
do work, as did Telmet's binaries until recently. 4.3 release and all other 4.4dr1 binaries (including the
most recent Telmet ones) give the error.

It appears that the error is caused either by emusharemem.dll or the items table, or both.
However, all of my DB tables are up-to-date including the items table which includes the new "minstatus" column.
I've tried completely deleting the DB and loading a new one from scratch, both with and without my
DB addon, and I have tried clearing out the items table. I still get exactly the same error message.
I have also tried using the emusharemem.dll from a version I knew worked, again to no effect (probably wouldn't have worked anyway)

My OS is Windows 98, SE I think.

Anyway, is anyone else encountering this problem and what
If anyone with this problem has managed to solve it, how did you do it? I've tried just about everything and have failed to even find out exactly what's causing the problem, so any help would be appreciated, it would help me and anyone else with this problem (I've read a number of forum posts reporting similar errors since 4.3)