You definitely need an account to import your characters to ..
Yeah I see now. The person that I obtained setup instructions didn't include the manual editing of SQL for the purpose of character restoration. The game started and connected and allowed an account to be used but I guess we'll call that a ghost.
In any event I deleted and restored the virt machine from backup. Once my head stops spinning from the medication I sadly still need (metformin) I can then sit down and start to edit the data and cross my fingers.
Question: for the dbp.user_auth where you input the password info, the file I generated from that site you listed (thank you for that!

) has CONVERT(BINARY(128) then the comma then the password string. Does the CONVERT(BINARY(128) go in as well or just the string?
Want to get this right the first time,
