Interesting, I used the eqemu3.2 DB, but droped npc_types and loaded the table from 3.1 and it no longer gave the error.  Did the sample DB have the wrong npc_types table?
I am posting a test DB in 
http://forums.eqemu.net/showthread.p...;threadid=1896  I would be interested in how it works when loging into it.