I'll try to answer a couple. The db.ini question you had is a bit confusing. You don't need to do anything special with it for use with velious DB. It just stays the same and in the same spot.
Sucks about the 13 hour DL but the way I feel about it is, the longer it takes, the more likely something will get interupted in the transfer. Really hard to get around that one since your on dialup.
As for quests not working. Did you just rename the folder that you DL to quests? That should of been all you had to do. I think it comes as PEQ_quests and I rename it quests and just move to EQEmu folder. So should be like this,
C:\EQEmu\quests\zonenames
and not this,
C:\EQEmu\quests\quests\zonenames
Next part of quest problem, which I had to, was you had to #reloadpl once in game to get them to respond to hails. I DL the most current Perl compiled emu version and they respond to hails right off the bat now.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e...2.zip?download
Hope that helps a bit.