Got it! I originally used
this wiki about 0.7.0-845 which specifically deals with MySQL 5.0.24 -- which is why I figured it would work.
Tried MySQL 4 which made problems worse. (Stupid me I forgot to manually remove the extra DB files...) Went back to MySQL 5, checked everything a couple times, and found the problem.
My batch file was wrong. It didn't correctly start the zones so the server was up and running but I couldn't load any zones. At all. *sigh*
Either way it's up and running perfectly now.
Thanks again devs! EQEmu is fun!