Zen Cart 1.3.8a

I am in the process of moving a site from one host to another. I've been following these directions: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=100 along with these: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=107 to accomplish the task. In the "moving instructions," step 2a asks for the new database on the new hosting space to have the same prefix as the established database on the old space. However, the new hosting service automatically assigns the database prefix. I've called to ask if I can somehow override this and they've told me "no."

As an alternative, could a script be run to rename the tables in the existing database so they will match the preassigned prefix of the new database? Thanks in advance for your time.