This guide worked nearly flawlessly. The only trouble was in your Grant Options. *.* would never work.
I changed to eq.* and started up fine. Just one more question remains. I posted at the following link, but perhaps you may be able to provide some insight better as I used your database. Thanks!
http://forums.eqemu.net/viewtopic.php?t=8766
To all you people who can't get world.exe flag... to work. It won't until you get Grant Options to work as far as I can tell. Try "(databasename).*" instead of "*.*". In the case of this guide, mine was "eq.*" without the quotes.
Thanks in advance Devlor!