/me sighs, I broke Mercs

[HnathBST]

So seeing as peq has started updating all their quests to lua... I decided I should recompile with lua on. While I was at it I snagged a daily db from peq.

Sourced in the db and recompiled (old source) and everything seems fine. Someone complained that mercs aren't working... Went ahead and got the newest source, recompiled. Still no mercs.

I found (sql error) and fixed the changes to specialatk/special_abilities

reload the server, still no mercs. No errors in zone, world, no debug, nothing. Just a daunting message "Mercenary failed to spawn".

I did notice (not sure if its a bug/feature/part of my problem) that if I walk away from the Liaison with the merc window open and click hire it returns "Your mercenary is about to be suspended due to insufficient funds", I have upkeep turned off, and also have plenty of money.

I tried to recreate this and it wouldn't do it...

Any insight would be greatly appreciated... I don't know what I've done here...