After trying your recomendations and a few other things, I found that the everquest2 installation from the full digital download placed a lot of the files at C:/>users>public>sony online entertainment>installed games>everquest II. I lookedin this directory and found my last character I logged on as had their .ini file there. So I installed Drums Updater to that directory and this fixed the issue. After this I loaded EQMap and then moved all my saved character .ini and .opt files to tis directory and everything was back the way it was before the new install
I hope this helps anyone else who encounters this issue.