OS X 10.6.8 updates not visible from Server 10.6.8 SUS

Question

SUS downloads, copies, and enables all updates from 10.4 to 10.9, but clients can't see any of the updates. I've pointed a client on 10.6.8 using:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://<MyCatalogIP>:8088/index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog
The client will connect to SUS, shown in the server access log:
<MyClientIP> - - [19/Dec/2013:13:56:01 -0800] 80 GET "/index-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog" 404 322 "-" "Software%20Update/270 CFNetwork/454.12.4 Darwin/10.8.0 (i386) (MacBookPro4%2C1)
... but Software Update will return "Your software is up to date." I think that this may be because the index-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog file is overwritten each time SUS restarts. Running "nano <sucatalog>" on this or any other .sucatalog indicates that the catalog is completely unpopulated (except for language packs), despite the fact that SUS has downloaded and enabled updates. Deleting the .sucatalog and redownloading it from apple allowed the client to see updates directly from Apple (as though SUS were acting as a proxy), but after SUS was reset, the .sucatalog was overwritten. I looked in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SUServer.framework/Versions/A/Resources, but didn't see anything that my restore the file other catalogRestoreInfo.plist. The file is over 2k lines long, and I'm not proficient enough in xml to know exactly what's going on.
I've also tried editing my swupd.conf and swupd.plist files. They now read:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/9
    RewriteRule ^/index\.sucatalog$ /index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/10
    RewriteRule ^/index\.sucatalog$ /index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/11
    RewriteRule ^/index\.sucatalog$ /index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/12
    RewriteRule ^/index\.sucatalog$ /index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/13
    RewriteRule ^/index\.sucatalog$ /index-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
</IfModule>
(in the rewrite section), and
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
     <key>otherCatalogs</key>
     <array>
          <string>index-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string>
          <string>index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string>
          <string>index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string>
          <string>index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string>
                <string>index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string>
     </array>
</dict>
</plist>
respectively.
The server doesn't respond to my Maverick client at all, but making updates for my Snow Leopard client visible is more pressing.
Could anyone point me in the right direction to fix this? Thanks.

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