I tried to log in one evening around 7:00PM PST, and Cairne (where I have 5 characters) was “Locked”, Lightbringer (4 characters) was “Locked”, Dawnbringer (1 character) was “Locked” … I did finally get into Cairne, though - the queue was only 100 or so. But I’m stocking up on backups on several servers 
Booty Bay is neutral.
There’s a flight point in Swamp of Sorrows and one in Booty Bay (neutral). I think Grom’gol connects to Badlands, as well.
Speaking of booty … a while back Chimtahna (my tauren hunter) found a key while killing centaurs in The Barrens. It’s identified as “Kolkar Booty Chest Key”. Despite slaughtering many Kolkar centaurs and investigating their camps, I have not found a “Kolkar Booty Chest”.
So what is this key for?
According to Thottbot, it opens a chest that might spawn in at a couple locations.
There are several Kolkar Booty Chests. I think they spawn at the leaders’ pavilions at each of the oases. They may spawn other places, too.
They’re basically just like random treasure chests…you’re not really missing anything important if you don’t get to open any.
It opens a chest or two.
Have you tried Wowhead yet? It’s great for finding things. (I don’t bother with questing mods, I just look stuff up on Wowhead.) In the search box, type “kolkar booty” to find the key. One of its tabs is “Unlocks”, click that and click one of the links Kolkar’s Booty, which gives a nice map showing where to go. Also, you can check out the comments others have left–they can be very helpful.
I started playing on an RP server, and it was nice. No queues, no competition in the killing fields…then my friend’s roomie invited her and I to his guild on a high-pop PVE server. 700+ queues aren’t uncommon, and there’s constantly at least one to three other players doing the same quests as we are. (Usually drop quests, so it’d do no good to group up.) At least I haven’t seen anyone else copying my mining paths yet, but I’m sure I’ll rant when it happens.
THanks for the key answers. I’m gonna go try it out 
It may not have been intentional.
If you stand close to an NPC vendor, banker, quest giver, you may be subjected to a “misclick”.
Default ketbindings require you to right-click on the NPC to interact with it. If you right-click on a PC, you open the trade screen.
The other player may have been going “wtf?!?” as much as you!
I miss Wow, but I sorta lost interest. Anyway, I used to go to Allakhazam.com a lot for quest/mob/armor/weap info.
Also my brother gave me this book :
and I used it every single day. Great for getting around Undercity, and handy indexes in the back of where to find herbs, minerals etc.
I quit playing at least 6 months ago, so I’m not sure how up to date either of the above referenced sources are, but when I was playing I found them very helpful.
I might have to go buy some game time 
The Atlas has a second edition that came out last September.
Print guides for an MMO are…questionable at best. I actually have that Brady Games strategy guide, as it came with the Warchest, and a lot of the info is well out of date.
Allakhazam…might give useful info, but I never really liked their organization. Wowhead.com is incredibly superior for specific detailed information on quests, NPCs, and items, and Wowwiki.com offers the same information as the strategy guide, only it’s able to be kept up to date. Thottbot is similar Wowhead, but again I dislike the organization.
Just a heads up for anyone using online resources for WoW: Allakhazam and Thottbot are notorious for being infested with various viruses, trojans and keyloggers. Wowhead gets them too from time to time, but nowhere near as frequently as the other two. So keep your virus protections updated and stuff like NoScript for Firefox at hand when you peruse these sites.
I had the first edition strategy guide, way back when I started about six months after launch, and it was already out of date in several places even then.
Not really. Unless I did something wrong I had an alliance guy kill me on a fetch and run quest there. I got off of the boat, picked up items from the dockmaster and waited for the next boat and an alliance player ganked me.
Of course, as I said I may have accidentally and unknowingly flagged myself as pvp.
No, Booty Bay IS neutral. That doesn’t mean you can’t be attacked if you’re on a PvP server or accidentally flagged yourself. It only means that the guards and NPCs won’t kill you on sight (unless you’re at Hated status for past actions).
“Sanctuaries” are the only cities in the game that are truly neutral, in that PvP is explicitly forbidden in those zones. The only sanctuaries in the game are Shattrath City, Dalaran, and Acherus: The Ebon Hold (Death Knight starting area). Even if you are flagged for PvP, you will appear unflagged inside the city walls and cannot be attacked. In any other zone, if a player is flagged then the opposing faction can attack him (or her). (However, both Shattrath and Dalaran have sections of the city reserved for specific factions and if you enter areas belonging to the opposing faction the guards won’t like it very much, but I think you still can’t pvp even if they DID let you into those areas.)
As someone mentioned before, the color of a player’s name can indicate their PvP status. Blue=unflagged, Green=same faction flagged, Yellow=Opposing faction flagged (if you are unflagged), Red=Opposing faction flagged (if you are also flagged). You can only attack players of the opposing faction who are Yellow and/or Red. NPC/Mob name colors work differently; Green=friendly, Yellow=neutral, Red=hated/hostile. When you enter a battleground area, everyone is flagged for the duration of the match, and you will remain flagged for 5 minutes after exiting a battleground match, unless you manually enabled your PvP flag, or are on a PvP server.
Heh, I just remembered one of my old guildmasters who was Canadian and would call it “P ver P.”
If you’re interested in actually roleplaying, Moon Guard is generally considered the best RP server.
When Blizzard was still creating new servers, each new RP realm would go through a similar cycle. A new server would go up and immediately would be flooded with hard-core RP players who were annoyed with the non-RP players on their realms. For the first few months the server would be a paradise of RP – everyone talking in character in the starting areas, lots of new themed guilds starting up in the cities.
Then, over time, non-RP elements would creep in. High-level guilds would form to focus on getting good gear and start ignoring RP. People would invite their non-RP friends to join. The quality of general chat in Elwynn Forest would go in the toilet. The hard-core RP players would get more and more annoyed at the changing atmosphere.
Then, Blizzard would create a new RP server! Hooray, everyone would cry! Let’s all re-roll there and get away from all the people who don’t care about RP! So the cycle would start over again.
I watched the RP diaspera as it rippled from Steamwheedle Cartel, to Sentinels, to Blackwater Raiders, and finally to Moon Guard. Moon Guard was the last RP server created before Burning Crusade was released, so everyone who had been migrating to new servers looking for better RP ended up there.
(Three more RP servers went live a week or so after Moon Guard: Sisters of Elune, Farstriders, and The Scryers. However they were created AFTER Burning Crusade was released, so most of their early population was just people trying out Blood Elves and Draenei on a lark. The hard-core RP population didn’t migrate because Moon Guard was still too new.)
I’m sure there are still pockets of RP on other servers, but Moon Guard seems to have the greatest concentration of serious RPers. I was on Moon Guard a week ago and someone was in the Guild Recruitment channel trying to get people interested in re-rolling en masse on Steamwheedle to jump start RP over there.
Of course, Moon Guard has a queue several hundred long every night, so there’s a price to pay for good RP … .
RP servers are, of course, the chosen refuge of PVPers whose servers are down or queued. Wouldn’t want to deprive them of their enjoyment of harassing and making fun of RPers or anything…
jayjay (carebear extraordinaire)