DUHHHH , yeah, silly me should have checked the official forums first.
There's apparently 8 pages or more of people in a similar situation, YAY SOE, nice to see things are normal.
Did I miss something .... Is there some fix I am missing for this ?? An extra hoop to jump thru ... would be nice to know when / if I will be able to play again.
You guys should try to run the game through the normal Launchpad again. I downloaded a patch earlier this morning, and just downloaded another patch. I think they patched twice, which would explain your issues if you just grabbed the first patch.
I just ran the game through Everquest2.exe and the Profit login worked fine.