So my trader was sitting quietly in the bazaar, in a minimized window, while I was working on another project, and suddenly I got a bunch of disk activity and discovered that EQ was crashing. In a couple minutes it had finished crashing, and I was looking at the server select screen. I clicked forward to server select, and saw my trader bot ready to log back on: but when I clicked from there, EQ crashed again, and eventually made its way back to server select once more.
I went through this cycle once more.
I closed EQ and restarted it, and did this cycle once more.
I rebooted, started no other programs, started EQ, and did this cycle once more.
I did a full file check, and did this cycle once more.
So for some reason I can start the game with no problem, get all the way to character select, and then the game freezes and resets itself back to the server select screen.
Any suggestions?