All spells fizzle on server, none cast

[Rodnoldo]

I stood up built a new Windows server using Akkadius installer version downloaded in July 2019. Clients connected and folks used the server for about a month when my Windows 10 system was patched and some Windows function took over the TCP port 9001 causing everything to fail in mid-August. I could not get the server to start.

After reinstalling with a more current installer version (this one includes Strawberry-perl-5.24.4.1-64bit), I still could not get restarted until reading forums, I finally ran across a note someone mentioned a Windows process using port 9001. Sure enough, after changing that to in json file for TCP to 9002, the server came back up.

I updated a fresh peq from that installer with data to account and character tables and some items. Then added all my quests back in and everything seemed to be working from my build and test perspective.

Then I let users on and realized my current problem.
No player character can cast spells, whether GM or not privileged. Existing or newly created character.
Every attempt fizzles, and fizzles until the mana pool is exhausted. No player character can cast a successful spell, at all.
Same issue from any client machine connecting, so I do not think this is a client issue.

My quest NPCs can cast their spells like normal with CastSpell in the perl scripts.

Where can I look in the database for some peculiarity or entry?

How can I turn on more logging to see if an error occurs so I can try to find what is wrong in the server configuration or database?

I'm kind of at a loss here. I have never seen this before and I cannot find any forum topic which describes the same "every character NPC spell fizzles every time."

Thanks, very much.