Problems moving IMAP store to a new drive in 10.4 Server

Hi,
I'm having some problems with IMAP mail in 10.4 Server. I'm trying to move my mail store over to a different volume and have been having problems. Here are the locations:
Database location: /Volumes/vol-old/Mail/Database
Mail store location: /Volumes/vol-old/Mail/Store
I'm trying to move them to:
/Volumes/vol-new/Mail/Database
/Volumes/vol-new/Mail/Store
So what I initially did was to clone vol-old to vol-new using SuperDuper, and enter the new paths into the two fields in Server Admin. Simple, right? Seems like it should be, but when I try this, upon a client trying to log in I get this repeated over and over in my /var/log/mailaccess.log:
Feb 6 21:25:38 pmac imaps[1606]: Fatal error: ERROR: Cannot start mail services, configuration directory does not exist: /Volumes/vol-new/Mail/Database
Feb 6 21:25:38 pmac master[1581]: process 1606 exited, status 75
Feb 6 21:25:38 pmac master[1581]: service imaps pid 1606 in READY state: terminated abnormally
Feb 6 21:25:38 pmac master[1607]: about to exec /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/imapd
As far as I can tell, vol-old/Mail and vol-new/Mail are exactly the same. I tried re-copying vol-old/Mail to vol-new/Mail using ditto and cp -Rp with the same results.
I've also tried renaming vol-new to vol-old with the same results.
The old mail store, at /Volumes/vol-old/Mail, continues to work fine.
I am stumped. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks so much,
Alex

Ohhhhh geeez. *smacks forehead*
I did stop the mail service before copying, and ACLs are disabled on both volumes. The permissions within the Mail dirs all look to be the same...
What I didn't do was look at directory permissions... vol-old was 755... vol-new was 700. Changed it, works fine now.
Thanks for your help, and sorry to waste your time... hopefully this post will help other idiots like me

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