I decided to start up my own server for home use, and world.exe could not connect to mysql server because it said access denied. So I went and tried image's solution found here
http://forums.eqemu.net/viewtopic.php?t=2395
and when I tried to do the mysql command he suggested, the command prompt tells me:
ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '@127.0.0.1; to database 'eq'
In case anyone is wondering, here is the command I inputted:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON eq.* TO hbbtstar@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;