If you used the most recent database from
Code:
http://projecteqdb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
then you should not need to source the updates prior to 1900 as they should already be in the database.
Just out of curiousity I compiled emulator rev2012 to see if the pet weapon issue would happen to me and it did not.
Are there any errors in your emulator log files? Does everything else work on your server?
Do you have all of the emulator map files from
Code:
http://code.google.com/p/eqemu-maps/source/list
Not even sure if this is relevent but did you remember to move the plugins from %emulatordirectory\quests\plugins to %emulatordirectory\plugins