Fixed this and got mercs to spawn (not work but spawn) basically ran any extra merc sql I had in the /utils/sql/svn directory.
2380_optional_merc_data.sql
2380_optional_merc_merchant_npctypes_update.sql
2380_optional_merc_rules.sql
2383_required_group_ismerc.sql
This required some manual tweaks here and there to make it kosher. Then finally I ran the following:
https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/blob..._Abilities.sql
So that makes them spawn and follow me around but from there they are morons still and don't do any actions yet. At least this get's it moving in the right direction.