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I'm sorry what your explaining doesn't make any sense. Could you expand a little more on things?

It almost sounds like you maybe have 2 installs of EQ2. One version your EQ2 icon loads and one version the eq2map patcher loads when its done. Thats the only thing I can think of. EQ2maps normally works even if you don't load the patcher.

Right click on your normal EQ2 Icon and choose properties. In the "Target:" field is the location where EQ2 is installed, post that text here. Then open up the eq2map patcher program like you normally do but quickly click on the properties button and post here the text found in the "EverQuest 2 Directory:" field.