The quest "quests/global/global_player.lua" was crashing the LUA parser. Removing it eliminated the crash.
The missing models were due to not having the old, original EQ files. I reinstalled from the 1999 discs, then copied my new install over the old, and the server now works as intended.
This line held the key to unraveling the fubar:
Code:
#23 0x0000000000919d8d in LuaParser::LoadScript (this=this@entry=0x10f0240, filename="quests/global/global_player.lua",
package_name="global_player") at /home/eqadmin/eqemu/source/Server/zone/lua_parser.cpp:937