Thanks for the changes/fixes so far
It looks like the skills.h is still being a bit flakey, though. I am able to load from URL like you suggested by putting my local path in there for spdat.h, but it fails for skills.h:
F:\EQEmuServer\zone\spdat.h
F:\EQEmuServer\common\skills.h
Probably related to the problem with browsing for the local file that was happening before.