It seems to be so, yes.
Since the only part of the installation that went wrong was my inability to acquire the PERL mysql interface, due to the fact that the Guide provided is out of date, and since using updated versions of PERL and the mysql related interfaces do not work, I can only assume that the problem lies with PERL, or, more specifically, that it seems PERL is required for EQEmu to connect to a mysql database. There is no actual database problem, as my database works, and I am able to connect to it, and other programs are able to use it just fine.
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