Vacation Messages Dead

Well, this is pretty awesome. I cannot tell you how happy I am that what is supposedly a minor upgrade has managed to break so many things on the one server I've upgraded so far. What's even better is that there seem to be more questions than people capable of answering them. I think I've had exactly zero responses to every thread I've started or joined in about SLS so far... YESSS!!!
So, here's my next (probably unanswered) question: Why in the world will my vacation notices not work?? I got them to work briefly for my own user account, but that was short-lived. After that one time, I could no longer update the message or dates successfully. I'd save the changes in the Wonderful World of Wiki, but nothing would actually change in the auto-replies. What's more, any other users I try to activate the service on don't work at all. The logs show the "vacation notice as configured for xxx", but no auto-replies are generated. I've tried using the FQDN, 127.0.0.1, and localhost under SA -> Web -> Wiki -> External Web Services, to no avail.
My server is updated to v10.6.2, and is an upgrade install from v10.5.8. I had previously set up avelsieve to enable the vacation "filter" in SquirrelMail. No doubt these factors make my arrangement a doomed one, and I will have to resort to reinstalling and reentering all my data by hand using 1s and 0s on a punchcard. Can anyone help? Or how 'bout a "Yeah, this ***** for me, too"?
Aggravated,
Fred

I too renamed the vac...db to force recreate and have this in my logs:
: 2010-02-10 11:43:42+0000 [-] Session (3FC789D0-AE99-48FE-BE33-BA9CCC0DDD72) validated for team
: 2010-02-10 11:43:42+0000 [-] Touching session <Session (team, 3FC789D0-AE99-48FE-BE33-BA9CCC0DDD72, issued=2010-02-10 11:43:38.436430, lastTouched=2010-02-10 11:43:38.913091)>
: 2010-02-10 11:43:42+0000 [-] Building vacation notice index (/Library/EmailRules/vacationIndex.db)
: 2010-02-10 11:43:42+0000 [-] Built vacation notice index
: 2010-02-10 11:43:42+0000 [-] User (team) does not have a vacation notice
: 2010-02-10 11:44:00+0000 [-] Touching session <Session (team, 3FC789D0-AE99-48FE-BE33-BA9CCC0DDD72, issued=2010-02-10 11:43:38.436430, lastTouched=2010-02-10 11:43:42.630047)>
: 2010-02-10 11:44:00+0000 [-] Vacation index already exists (/Library/EmailRules/vacationIndex.db)
: 2010-02-10 11:44:00+0000 [-] Updating vacation index with new entry for team (enabled: True, start: 2010-02-10, end 2010-02-11, subject: I'm away from my mail, message: I am away on vacation and will be back in the office on Thursday February 11, 2010.
: - Team Account)
: 2010-02-10 11:44:00+0000 [-] Vacation index already exists (/Library/EmailRules/vacationIndex.db)
: 2010-02-10 11:44:00+0000 [-] Fetched vacation notice from index for team (enabled=True, start=2010-02-10, end=2010-02-11)
: 2010-02-10 11:44:00+0000 [-] Vacation notice is not active ... excluding from sieve file
: 2010-02-10 11:44:00+0000 [-] Removed old sieve file for team
: 2010-02-10 11:44:00+0000 [-] Wrote new sieve file for team to /Library/EmailRules/sievescripts/328D5626-C378-4123-8115-E5490C7B135E.sieve
: 2010-02-10 11:44:01+0000 [-] Writing updated mailsieve property list (values = {'disabled': ['328D5626-C378-4123-8115-E5490C7B135E'], 'enabled': []})
: 2010-02-10 11:44:01+0000 [-] Vacation index already exists (/Library/EmailRules/vacationIndex.db)
: 2010-02-10 11:44:01+0000 [-] Marking vacation notice as unconfigured for team
Looks like i creates the db, configures them and then gets confused so unconfigures them.
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