Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP+Spamassassin+SquirrelMail ...issue

Hopefully I'm posting this in the correct area. Our server runs CentOS 4.4 on x86_64 arch.

So basically everything was going rather smoothly...

Problems began to arise at the point where I finished installing/configuring SquirrelMail. Upon logging in, I saw this:

[see attachment]

Ok, so I checked maillog and saw:

Feb 11 13:50:46 zeus imapd: LOGIN, user=alex, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], protocol=IMAP
Feb 11 13:50:47 zeus imapd: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam--
Feb 11 13:50:47 zeus imapd: Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (alex)
Feb 11 13:50:47 zeus imapd: Error: Input/output error
Feb 11 13:50:47 zeus imapd: Check for proper operation and configuration
Feb 11 13:50:47 zeus imapd: of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd).
Feb 11 13:50:47 zeus imapd: DISCONNECTED, user=alex, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], headers=0, body=0, rcvd=21, sent=57, time=1

So I did some searching and determined it was a problem with Courier-IMAP being compiled with File Alteration Monitor support and famd not running (I built RPM directly from source tarball without any customization whatsoever per the instructions on the Courier website).

I found some possible solutions to be:

1) Install and run fam and be sure portmapper is running as well (problem being is that fam has since been replaced by gamin on CentOS, which is installed properly on my system).
2) Do a source install of Courier-IMAP and --disable-fam

Ok, so route 1 went like this: I uninstalled gamin, found fam-2.6.8, installed it, started it manually, made sure portmapper was running and tried again. This time, I still got the same errors in SquirrelMail, but the errors in maillog didn't show up. However, shortly after the page loaded, the famd process I had started manually promptly ended without my intervention. Ok, onto trying #2.

Route 2 went like this: reinstalled gamin, then I tried building a custom RPM by manually configuring with --disable-fam and then using rpmbuild -bc --short-circuit and rpmbuild -bi --short-circuit. That didn't change anything at all, I still had the same errors both with SquirrelMail and in maillog. Then I said ok, I'll just do a complete source install. ./configure --disable-fam && make && make install. Manually started that server, tried again, same deal, both errors.

So I've got problems. Either with Courier-IMAP, SquirrelMail, or both. The other daemons seem to run fine, I just mentioned them in case of the possibility of some kind of (unknown to me) conflict.

If you need to see any of my configs, let me know...any information greatly appreciated...I'm desperate.