Starting City

[John Adams]

My turn to ask a noob question that I cannot find the answer to. I see a table for starting cities for race, class, diety. However, most times when I create a new toon they end up in Qeynos. Here's a capture of the world log upon creating my DE Wizard.

[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: Name approval request. Name=DEChar, race=Dark Elf, class=Wizard
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT_TRACE] Account1: Sending EQApplicationPacket OpCode 0x0105
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT_TRACE] Account1: Recevied EQApplicationPacket
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: Character creation request from Account1 LS###### (192.168.1.100:2841) :
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: Name: DEChar
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: Race: 6 Class: 12 Gender: 0 Deity: 213 Start zone: 5
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: STR STA AGI DEX WIS INT CHA Total
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: 60 80 90 75 83 134 60 582
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: Face: 5 Eye colors: 2 2
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: Hairstyle: 1 Haircolor: 12
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: Beard: 255 Beardcolor: 255
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Validating char creation info...
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Found 0 errors in character creation request
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: Found 'startzone' variable setting:
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT_ERR] Account1: Error getting zone id for ''
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: Current location: qeynos -1.00, -1.00, -1.00
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: Bind location: qeynos -1.00, -1.00, -1.00
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT] Account1: Character creation successful: DEChar
[Debug] [WORLD__CLIENT_TRACE] Account1: Sending EQApplicationPacket OpCode 0x0100

Question: Any idea why "Start Zone: 5" would be Highpass Hold?
And why the world client Error getting zone id for ''?

This is standard PEQ database, the Cavedude database and Angelox full database (no mods). Latest binaries. Windows Public server. It also happens with an Iksar, Ogre, Troll, Froglok, and... I stopped testing there.

Any input would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.


Edit: On second glance, a race I know was working before (Vah Shir) is now dropping new ones in Qeynos, too. So it's likely I do have something screwed up. I'll post a followup whenever I sort it out.