Might be the version you are using. I run on Vista Ultimate 64 as well. Use the 32 bit version of Perl.
C:\>perl --version
This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
C:\>mysql --version
mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.67, for Win32 (ia32)
cvs is no longer used. it's all on the svn now.
http://www.eqemulator.org/wiki/wikka...CategoryServer