Okay, maybe I'm just misunderstanding something here. The PEQDB URL looks like this:

http://projecteqdb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/∞

What is the significance of the infinity symbol after the final forward slash? Is it supposed to be there? Is it part of the URL? Does it represent something else? Whether I include it or omit it, I still receive the error message mentioned above.

Yes they are, I just checked them.
Maybe your firewall is blocking TortoiseSVN?

I always go here:

http://code.google.com/p/projecteqdb/source/checkout

And use the svn checkout command given on that page:

svn checkout http://projecteqdb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ projecteqdb-read-only

That symbol ∞ denotes a hyperlink in the wiki and is not part of the url.
You will see it alot in the wiki.

Your url for the database would be:
http://projecteqdb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

and so on...

I've updated the wiki page:
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...a=ProjectEQSVN

so that the URLs are now showing without the ∞ (hyperlink) symbol.

Now it should be foolproof! :D

anyone know why I get disconnected on logging in? or if theres something I need to check.

Each time I attempt to checkout, I receive the same error message as before. I guess something else is going on.

I am considering restoring a back up of my DB, but will that cause problems since it was on a different revision?

Actually I believe I found what is wrong. I get a message in world.exe saying that the character info cannot be found. I don't want to have to wipe all characters, so is there any way I can fix this?

Is there an alternative location to get all this that doesn't rely on SVN? I began copying the text in each link and manually creating files, till I got to the player_tables and updates folders. There are too many to continue.

Sounds like you have a proxy issue.
You should google your error and you may find a fix.

You should use a subversion (SVN) client. It will download all files in a repository with just one command. I don't run a server under windows so I don't know what clients are good. I'm sure someone else can chime in here with a suggestion.

I've had no problems running RapidSVN under Windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidSVN

- Shendare

No cigar with any of the suggestions. I am not using a proxy server, I can access the URLs just fine with a browser, 3 pages of google searches did not yield a solution, and RapidSVN gives me the same errors.

I use TortoiseSVN. Just get rid of the infinity symbol...
http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7221