Postfix won't load without amavisd in foreground

OK, here's the poop:
Working mail server goes tango-uniform this morning, don't know why. Start up Server Admin, stop mail, start mail, IMAP and POP3 listed as running, SMTP never comes up.
/var/log/mail.log shows nothing.
Eventually figure out that postfix won't start up because amavisd-new won't start up. Run amavisd debug and find that Net::Server needs to be updated. Update Net::Server module, amavisd debug is now happy.
Stop mail server, start mail server, postfix will now run.
But the only way I can get postfix to run is to open a Terminal window and do a sudo amavisd debug.
Freshclam continues to be a problem as the plist for the LaunchDaemon seems to be screwed up, but deleting the "Iterations" key and redoing the -c flag to --checks=4 seems to cure that, until I change any settings with Server Admin, which rewrites the plist file incorrectly.
Question 1: Why is amavisd so reluctant to launch by itself?
Question 2: Doesn't Postfix "call" it and start it up?
Question 3: Do the LaunchDaemon plists for amavisd have anything to do with it? Both say "Disabled" is "true", and that seems to get overwritten at boot time or something like that.
ARGH!!!
As Murphy's Law would have it, I am taking vacation to tackle a major lawn project and heavy, rented equipment is arriving, so I have NO time or patience for this. In the meantime, mail.log is filling up with successful connections through the system with this manually-launched amavisd thing that I have going on.
Can anybody help me with how postfix and amavisd are supposed to launch and why they won't?
Thanks!

Hi, Alex, I had a feeling you might respond.
I finally figured out the problem this morning. Even after restoring from backup, the problem still existed. I eventually figured out that SA was confused, that my plists were horked, and that launchd was acting funny. Every time I fixed the freshclam plist, I could unload and load it, and it worked fine. But the system.log still showed launchd complaints.
Eventually, I discovered a file called "#org.clamav.freshclam.plist#" in the LaunchDaemons directory, and I only noticed it by accident. It was the one that was getting loaded and causing all kinds of problems. I have to assume it was created by an emacs session or something which went awry--I haven't been able to nail down what the #'s mean. With that file gone, my edits to the freshclam plist took effect.
Even then, not everything came back instantly. It still took quite a while of rejiggering the plist files with SA until they were all stable enough to work.
Thanks!
Bill

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