The older versions are probably your best bet. Though, I am not sure if you will run into other issues given I haven't seen anyone using that flavor of Linux for an EQEmu server yet and there aren't any guides specifically for it.
I fixed that issue with the 'range' field in the item table back in July 2009. It should work fine with MySQL 5.1, unless a subsequent change broke it again.
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