Thanks for the replies.
I've sourced the variables and rule sets and rule values sql files from the PEQ CVS download to add the contents (I removed the lines that did anything else so they wouldn't wipe the tables, even though most of the tables were empty).
At least some of the Variables are working, because I now see the MOTD, and I customized it and I see my version. I can't tell if the Rules are working. I tried changing the HP and Mana regen multipliers but I can't see a difference in game. It's like those values are being ignored. The HP regen in game is very slow (even before I loaded those values), and does a strange backstep where I'll gain 6 hp then lose 4 in the subsequent tick (and no, even though it's a necro, he's not using the hp-to-mana spell).
Is there anywhere that definitively says which variables are used and which are no longer valid and which rule values are used and not ignored?
I've looked at the EQEmu and ProjectEQ wikis/wikkas, but I haven't seen any detail on how to use the variables and rules tables. I can find the schema, but that doesn't tell me anything I can't already see with Navicat. Am I not looking in the right place? I using the links
http://www.projecteq.net/wikka/HomePage and
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=HomePage which I've seen in forum threads.