Ok, I am just looking for the bare basics here.

Let me tell you what I did. I went to BlueAdept's web site and downloaded:
zonefilters.tar.gz
luclinzonefilters.tar.gz

I extracted all the files from these (tons of filters_zonename.conf files) into /usr/local/share/showeq/ with my other conf files.

I am using the absolute latest code, I just did an update and rebuild, Sat morning, June 1st.

None of those zone filter files seem to be used, and if I manually do Filters->Select Filter File and pick the zone I am in, it still does not seem to do anything.

I checked the contents of a filter file (ex: "filters_ecommons.conf") to see that it contained a mob that was in the current zone list (ex: "Altunic Jarten"), but when I select "Alert" from the popup above the mob listing I get an empty list.

Is this a case where these are old style filter files and I need to be using the new kind?

I was unable to extract "filters-020529.tar.bz2 ", as its not a gzip file (what is it? can someone give me the command line to extract this file?)

thanks in advance.