question about zones and the db.

[dragonflz]

First I want to start out by saying, Bravo! Excelent job by the dev team, and all those who help in the support forums.

My questions:
1) I am working on a server but Have no intentions of offering all the EQ zones, so if I were to remove the zones that I will not support from my DB would this cause any problems?

1a) Related to 1, by changing the zone lines on the zones I do plan on supporting, is it possable to have the zone locations zone a character to a different zone other then the original EQ locations?

2) I now there is no 'formal' support for the dev release of v5.7, but could I ask if the 5-1-04 verision fixes the character creation problem? and if it did then I know I have other issues.
The problem I am having is this.. I create a character the server reports everything went ok, but world crashes. then apon relogin world delete the character... Any thoughts?

Thanks for any and all help
Drag