What a time-saver! I suggest the following small change to enable this to be used with an /includes/local/configure.php file (I use this a bunch for local, pre-test versions of a site):
Code:
// Load the definition file for the database table names. 
require_once(DIR_FS_CATALOG . "includes/database_tables.php");  //-20140724-lat9-Use configure.php setting, enables using /includes/local/configure.php