I got the database working, very nice work Drawde. The way I did it may or may not be correct, I probably did a worthless step or 2, npc's may have the wrong items and spells, but for the most part it seems to work. Here is how I did it.
Source the db.sql from
http://edwardpinniger.bctalk.net/eq/44dr1.zip then source the update44dr1.sql from that same zip. Then source the db.sql again (sounds silly but it worked...) then source Drawde's reloaddb.sql. Source books.sql, and then items...the items.sql in
http://edwardpinniger.bctalk.net/eq/itemsbooks.zip didn't work for me, so I used an older files items_44dr1.txt that I think came with the last beta of Drawde's database, but I'm not sure.
I'm sure doing it this way will make a few strange errors, but hey, it works for someone that can't use the cvs.