I have no life tonight
OK, OK any night. Anyway, it doesn't seem like world is starting at all... That is most likely a db issue somehwere. Do me a favor and open a command prompt, and cd to your eqemu dir. Then, run world. That will enable you to see its output. Post that up here.
3.1 comes with my database. PEQ's database in the current form won't work with 0.7.0 because of changes made to the items table. While I could easily make the changes and include it I don't want to step on anybody's toes and edit their work. My database with the installer should work just fine for you. Once PEQ updates their work, I will include it in future releases of my installer... to give everybody a choice. I am not Microsoft
Perl and MySQL are simple. They just install like normal programs. Just make sure you use MySQL 4.0, 4.1 doesn't work right and 5 doesn't work at all with EQEmu.