Spamtrainer -f & X-Spam-***: Question

I switched to a Mac Pro Intel as my server a few months ago. I have been working out the kinks. I was moving from a Tiger Server install on a PowerMac G5. I had all the stuff for amavis, clamav, & spamassassin fixed on that install. I missed something since I have 2 .spamassassin directories and no symlink in /var/clamav/ or /var/amavis/. I have been running the nightly cron job as setup by Spamtrainer 1.2.7. I just updated to 1.5.7.
So since I have been running this I do have a bayes DB.
sudo su - clamav -c "sa-learn --dump magic"
0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version
0.000 0 14767 0 non-token data: nspam
0.000 0 1402 0 non-token data: nham
0.000 0 181092 0 non-token data: ntokens
0.000 0 1165964162 0 non-token data: oldest atime
0.000 0 1170363924 0 non-token data: newest atime
0.000 0 1170396013 0 non-token data: last journal sync atime
0.000 0 1170396020 0 non-token data: last expiry atime
0.000 0 2764800 0 non-token data: last expire atime delta
0.000 0 12699 0 non-token data: last expire reduction count
First question is if I run spamtrainer -f will this delete the current DB?
If yes how do I combine the 2 directories before making the symlink?
What directory does spamtrainer -b backup /var/amavis/ or /var/clamav/?
/var/amavis/.spamassassin root# ls -loa
total 61896
-rw------- 1 clamav clamav - 20983808 Feb 2 17:43 auto-whitelist
-rw------- 1 clamav clamav - 95472 Feb 2 17:43 bayes_journal
-rw------- 1 clamav clamav - 5218304 Feb 2 17:43 bayes_seen
-rw------- 1 clamav clamav - 5390336 Feb 2 17:43 bayes_toks
/var/clamav/.spamassassin root# ls -loa
total 13128
-rw------- 1 clamav clamav - 1310720 Feb 2 05:30 bayes_seen
-rw------- 1 clamav clamav - 5410816 Feb 2 05:30 bayes_toks
My final question goes to the X-Spam-*: headers.
They should be in every mail that is delivered right? I only see these headers in mail with subject * JUNK MAIL *.
Will this be fixed after the symlink is done so all mail has X-Spam-*: headers in them?

Thanx Alex was waiting for your post.
All appears well sudo su - clamav -c "sa-learn --dump magic"
0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version
0.000 0 14789 0 non-token data: nspam
0.000 0 1402 0 non-token data: nham
0.000 0 182231 0 non-token data: ntokens
0.000 0 1165964162 0 non-token data: oldest atime
0.000 0 1170466264 0 non-token data: newest atime
0.000 0 1170482415 0 non-token data: last journal sync atime
0.000 0 1170465843 0 non-token data: last expiry atime
0.000 0 2764800 0 non-token data: last expire atime delta
0.000 0 12699 0 non-token data: last expire reduction count
so that looks good. but I get this error now which i did not get before.
~ root# sudo su clamav -c "spamassassin --lint"
su: Can't start from current directory: Permission denied
su: Trying to start from "/var/clamav"
$satag_leveldeflt was set to -999 so I don't know why all messages did not get X-Spam-*: headers?

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