Question about running EverQuest on a Boot Camp MacMini

Hey all,
I'm trying to get EverQuest working on my MacMini running Windows 7 via Boot Camp. Browsing through the archives of the internet, I've found many posts from 2007-2010 of people having success with this on a MacBook Pro (a few posts of which I found in these community archives), and I'm 99% certain that my MacMini hardware is more than sufficient. Anyway, I haven't even got to loading the game yet so performance my question isn't about performance.
My issue is that I'm trying to run the EverQuest LaunchPad to start patching the game, and it won't connect right from the outset. I've followed all of SoE's EQ LaunchPad Troubleshooting tips (here: http://help.soe.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29017 ) and I've also gone in to my router settings and opened/forwarded all of the necessary EQ ports to this computer's IP address. I was hoping that would do it but no luck.
I also contacted the SOE Support staff and they were categorically unhelpful as usual. I used to play EQ a decade ago and I wasn't surprised to see that their customer service hasn't changed one bit. Well, here's to hoping that the Mac community is much more positive and helpful than SOE Support.
Has anyone experienced similar problems getting EverQuest to run on a Windows Boot Camp machine like this? How did people get their LaunchPad client to connect? I'm hoping there's some really dumb, obvious fix that I'm missing here because it really does seem like many have gotten this to work successfully and I'm a bit stumped at the moment..
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

the hardware of macs today and windows computer is pretty much the same
so when one use bootcamp it's really just a bootloaded which collects the windows partition from the harddisk and then let it take over and apart from one having to install the apple drivers and software to get it running well
it's the same as any windows computer
I do all my my gaming on windows on my imac and face no different challenges then I did when I had a windows computer really
so If I were you I would broaden my googling for solutions not just to include bootcamp but all windows issues with newer windows versions and everquest could as easy be a issue there with newer video card drivers and the likes

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