Ok, first I don't think that EQEMU will work with perl 5.10, you need 5.8. Second look through these directions and see if you followed them to install the database. These directions are from
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=Portable. I removed a few lines that don't apply to you but the main points are the same everywhere.
b. Open a Dos Window
2. Change Directory to c:\Peq_db\Peq_db. Or where ever you placed the database files.
3. mysql -u root -p
4. mysql will prompt you for a password. At this point the password is empty. Just press enter.
5. Enter the following to create and source the database.
create database peq;
\u peq
source load_player.sql
6. Wait for this to finish. It could be several minutes.
7. We need to extract the peq database from peqdb_XXXXx.sql.gz. Use 7ZipPortable to extract the file. Remember to replace the XXXXx with the version number of the database you are using. For example: peqdb_1128a.sql, that is the database I used.
8. Next source the database
source peqdb_XXXXx.sql
9. Wait for this to finish. It too could be several minutes.
10. Next we need to add a password to your database.
set password for 'root'@'localhost' = OLD_PASSWORD('newpwd');
Note: Make sure to replace newpwd with the password you want for your database.
Syl