Epic Login Battle

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P99 works just fine on my laptop, but I can't get it running on my desktop. Obviously I'm only using one or the other at a time. I'll just lay out the details. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using the EqEmu Launcher.
For a while, I could get to the character login screen, but never into the game.
Most of the time I can't get a connection to the server (been trying for the past month or so).
I reset my modem, and now when I get to the character login screen, it says my spells are out of date, but EqEmu launcher says they are all up to date.

Any suggestions?