Items in database do not match them in game

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Hopefully I am just missing something really simple.

I have edited my database to be 5x AC/HP/MANA.

While I was in the process of creating characters to test out newb quests for balance, etc, I encountered something strange.

First of all, this a local server right now.

I made on character (a mage), and everything looked right (item stats matched, etc).

On the same account, I made a ranger. When I #findtem for the EXACT same items on that character, they appear as unaltered. I really don't understand why this is happening!

For example (chars are same account),

On character 1, #finditem xxxxx shows a AC 30 HP/MANA 25 item. Same when I giveitem and wear it.

On character 2, #finditem xxxxx shows ac AC 6 HP/MANA 5 item.

Now I cannot fathom that I changed ANYTHING, however (maybe this is unrelated), I recently used the eqemlauncher to patch one of my clients to play on Akkadius server.

Any thoughts?