I've been reading and re-reading, and scouring the forums trying to find the answer, and I think I've finally hit the wall. I'm just not super familiar with MySQL, it's Workbench or Command Line Interface. I did copy and paste the commands in the guide, into the MySQL CLI, but I'm not sure any of that worked. Someone more skilled than I might be able to determine if it did.
I also can't find the auth, characters, or world db's. Are those single files, directories of files, or something that you'd only see when created in MySQL?
Also, I downloaded the 7 zipped "TDB" file, but after it was extracted, I'm not able to see the two files inside. Shouldn't I be able to see the TDB_world and TDB_hotfixes files? Yeah, I'm lost.
I'm hoping some kind soul out there would be willing to help me get this past the end zone.