The only changes to the player tables in the past 4 months have been for Magoth78's bots
http://eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=22667 If you are just using a vanilla version of EQEmu, then there is no need to drop your player tables at all, only the system. And, even if you are using the bots, it would just be easier to apply the changes found in the readme manually.