Question about 1017 Error w/ XP

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I know there have been many discussions for the 1017 error and I have read the stickies and other articles regarding some possible solutions but I was wondering if someone may be able to offer some different insight regarding my 1017 error.

First off, I'm running XP Professional, Eqemu 5.2, and minilogin and have both the client/server on the same machine. My computer is slow, so after I connect to my server I can see my desktop momentarily before eq begins to load and I've noticed that when everything is fine I see what appears to be my eqemu account being submitted in the world.exe screen. Now when I get the 1017 error, I do not see the eqemu account being submitted and was wondering what could be the problem there?

What is really strange to me is that if I patch to eqlive I see it replace my eqgame.exe, lpatch.exe, and eqhost.txt only and then I'm able to play again until the problem resurfaces, after I replace the eqhost.txt file of course. I've tried replacing only the eqgame.exe and lpatch.exe from a backup but that doesn't work.
Is the patcher replacing or doing something else in the background, cleaning/deleting tmp files that I'm not aware of? Like I said, patching to eqlive has always fixed my 1017 error, but since we've been warned not to patch to eqlive after the 16th, I'm stuck.