Software Update - Update List fails

I've had a number of problems running Software Update Server from our server (10.5.2, clean install, all other services perfect).
Right now, in Server Admin > Software Update > Settings > Updates, nothing happens on clicking "Update List". In the Console I get a pair of error messages immediately after: "Server Admin[222] * -[NSCFString count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x151280e0" and " Server Admin[222] * -[NSCFString count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x151280e0".
In Server Admin > Software Update > Overview, the SUS is running, but Last Check for Updates shows "Not Available" in grey, as does "Updates Copied".
I've been able to get the clients to connect if I manually download a copy of index.sucatalog directly off Apple's site and put it into /etc/share/swupd/html/. So the fundamental client/server interaction is fine.
Running the command /usr/sbin/swupd_syncd -sync in the terminal results in the following error message:
"Fri Feb 15 21:01:45 myservername.com swupd_syncd[519] <Error>: Unable to download upstream catalog index (was looking for http://swscan.apple.com/content/meta/mirror-config-1.plist)"
But I can definitely read http://swscan.apple.com/content/meta/mirror-config-1.plist using Safari (that's how I got the apple index.sucatalog file in the first place).
As a result (I assume), Server Admin does not create com.apple.server.swupdate.plist in /etc/swupd/. I simply don't have that file. And I suppose that without a valid om.apple.server.swupdate.plist to work on, whatever creates a sensible local version of index.sucatalog just can't run.
I am very keen to get this to work. The swupd.plist seems to be appropriate to the settings in Server Admin.
I really can't figure out why swupd_syncd can't get the correct files. Completely at a loss. There are no helpful error messages that I can find.
Anyone able to help? I'd be very grateful.
Chris

First, swupd_syncd needs to be run with root privileges. The "<Error>: Unable to download upstream catalog index ..." message is a bit misleading. What it probably should say is, "Somewhere in the process of downloading the catalog index and writing it to disk, something went awry." In your case, most likely it ran into a permissions error when it tried to write the file to disk.
As to the main problem: It sounds like you might be trying to use an older Server Admin.app with a newer Software Update Server. Are you launching Server Admin from the same machine you're attempting to configure, or are you connecting to the 10.5.2 server from another admin console?
If you're connecting from a non-local Server Admin console, what's the OS X Server version you're connecting from? Or, if you're administrating from a non-Server machine, what version of the Server Admin Tools DVD did you use?

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