Well, I think you could be saved a TON of work if we can find the work that Shendare did a while back per this thread:
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=28639
His tool was able to pull a ton of race info from the EQ folder. I probably have the tool downloaded somewhere, but I will need to search around my hard drive to see if I can find it for you. If so, I think that will help you quite a bit. I recently tried contacting Shendare via PM on these forums, but never got a reply. You might try sending him a PM too and see if he replies. I had worked with him a few times on a few things, but maybe he doesn't have his PMs set to email him or something. If needed, maybe I can email him at the email he registered on these forums with. That is, if I can't find the files he sent me a while back. Unfortunately, all of the links he sent are now dead links.