Also from the EQ boards, regarding the "Project M" - players-as-monsters thing:

"I thought I'd pop in and explain to you all why you can't play as monsters
at the moment.
When the patch went long today (I'm very sorry about that) the servers came
back up pretty much at prime time. We decided that it might not be the best
thing in the world to turn on project M right after a patch and to coincide
with prime time. We thought that all of those factors combined might be a
little more than the PvP servers or their players could handle.
We'll turn it on some time soon. And I'm probably not going to announce it┬à
Alan"