Mail server rejecting messages and carrying out old sieve scripts

A week ago I upgraded to 10.6 and am now experiencing strange behaviour: occasionally, incoming messages do not make it to their recipient and the sender gets an old vacation reply that I had set up using sieve scripts in Leopard. Here is what the SMTP log reports when a message does not make it:
"Recipient address rejected: Service is unavailable"
I do not know how to go in and investigate what is going on with sieve scripts because it seems sieveshell has been gutted in 10.6. I currently do not have SL's new vacation message feature enabled, but it worked fine when I tested it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You can remove all of the old sieve scripts...
sudo rm -rf /usr/sieve/*
copy/paste into terminal.
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