problem reinstalling EQFollow

I tried to go into EQ on a desktop that I haven't used to play EQ in some time, and got a message that the zone file Dreadlands was not found. I looked in the EQ directory and sure enough, it wasn't there. So I decided to just reinstall all the disks to make sure all the zone files were in there, but when I put in the original EQ disk, I got a message saying "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose Close to terminate the application". This is a Dell XP machine with SP2. I looked in the system32 folder and that file is not in there (I have "show hidden files and folders" chosen in the folder options). Any suggestions?