What's all needed to make a zone?

[Windcatcher]

Are you overwriting an existing zone or using a new zone name? If you are using a new zone then you'll need to use a version of EQEmu that supports ZoneProxy and you'll need to use ZoneProxy 1.4. As far as I know, I'm the only one who ever uses a ZoneProxy-enabled server (0.5.5-ZP). Everyone else just overwrites existing zones. Also, if you're using ZoneProxy, there can be issues if you're within a LAN (make sure that loginserver.ini and boot5zones.bat use *local* IP addresses, but this means that no one outside your LAN can log in).

Save adding an entry to the zones table, you shouldn't have to do anything else to your database. I've made full-blown zones with dungeons and placed objects (with my own zone names), and they work just fine when I use EQEmu 0.5.5-ZP and ZoneProxy. I've even placed mobs and PoK books in them.

When you import your dungeon into OpenZone, I assume you are using File...Import...Import .3DS. What happens when you try to place an object? Have you tried it with OpenZone 6.4? If you are still having problems, I might need a copy of your dungeon so I can test it here to figure out what's wrong.