tradeskill_recipe_entries has bad? item_ids?

[MurphTheNerph]

I just started messing with my own server, d/l'd peqdb_rev1667, and started a vah bst, tried to do the first bst quest - combine stuff in the Stitching Pack - and got the "you can't combine those in that container!" error message.

I started poking around and found that in tradeskill_recipe_entries, what should have been the item_id for the Stitching Pack (17237) was a 16.
I thought this kinda weird as the lowest item id I saw in items was 1001.
With some trepidation I changed it to 17237, and lo and behold the combine worked.

I then selected for item_id < 1001 in tradeskill_recipe_entries and found a ton (well, 6719) of them.

I tried a few forum searches and didn't stumble over anything relevant..
Can someone tell me if this is intentional (and how its supposed to work like that?) or did I clobber my db with a bad update, or what.. Thanks.