Per the 6.5 release notes, 6.5 and all future versions are perl enabled.
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...=Dev065Release
"One note with this release: Perl is no longer optional, as if anybody really ran a server without quests anyhow. In theory, world could still be built without perl, but it would lose the HTTP inteface, and hence the ability to use most of the new features."
All quests worked fine for me after 7.0 install.