For those of you that have noticed that forges, kilns, ovens etc appearing as a bag on the ground, source the packed sql file and it'll fix the values in your db needed to see objects use their original textures (thanks LE). *
Note, 8 objects still remain unfixed by this.. all forges (cultural forges), but out of 298 objects in game -- that's not bad
get it here:
http://h37.bounceme.net/eqemu/obj_update.zip
For anyone needing a step-by-step:
I'll assume your db name is 'eq' in this example.
open mysql
use eq
source 0.5xObjectUpdate.sql;
enjoy
Hope this solves a few frustrations