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Since I don't have access to it, I can only guess...
Another way to make it work is to:
a) make a fresh installation of XOOPS 2.5.9-Beta2, and make sure that it works (let's call it Z3)
b) copy all the extra modules from Zec2 to this Z3 installation
c) import the database from your Zec2 installation to your local MySQL (by using, for example, phpMyAdmin)
d) in your Z3 installation, go to /xoops_data/data/
and make a backup of the file secure.php
e) in the Z3's secure.php replace the values for the Z3 database to the values of your imported Zec2 database (i.e. XOOPS_DB_PREFIX, XOOPS_DB_USER, XOOPS_DB_PASS, XOOPS_DB_NAME)
See if this would work for you....