I don't know what I missed, but I will outline everything below and maybe someone can help:
The problem: I have gained access to the THF private ls, but once I get to the character select screen, I only have an Erudite Warrior and cannot create, delete or enter world. The buttons are all there, everything looks fine, but nothing works except Quit. I have logged to the EQEmu servers to test there, but am having the same problems there as well.
What I did:
Went to Direct2Drive and downloaded the Underfoot client (since everyone says it's the most stable). (**NOTE** I am currently downloading the Underfoot pack from Steam, since EQEmu says the build might be different, will update when I finish that).
Made backups of both my EQLive and the new Underfoot directory on a separate drive, so I don't have to keep re-installing, then I copy / paste from my EQLive folder everything to the new Underfoot but chose to *not* replace any of the duplicates, which should have maintained the integrity of the Underfoot install.
Next, I downloaded and inserted the 4 files from here that they said were needed.
Next, I edited my eqhosts.txt to point at THF server, and edited the shortcut for client to add the patchme at the end.
Can't figure out what I'm missing, any help would be greatly appreciated!
**EDIT** Downloaded the Steam version of UF, everything seems to be fine now! Now I just have to make a few bots...