IMP CVS 2.3.7 (Mar 19 2001) Fails to save preferences or track connections

[Joe Jenkins]

I have IMP from CVS working (today's version) except for a couple of 
things:  When I turn on connection tracking, I no longer can log 
in.  Checking IMP's log, I see:

Mar 19 13:01:29 IMP [info] ip.ip.ip.ip login
Mar 19 13:01:58 IMP [info] PASSWORD RELOADED 216.190.228.2 to 
mail.nowalls.com:143[imap] as username
Mar 19 13:01:58 IMP [info] ip.ip.ip.ip failed

I found others with a similar problem, which they fixed by changing sql 
stuff in config.

$conf['connections']['track'] = true;
$conf['connections']['driver'] = 'sql';
$conf['connections']['params'] = array();
$conf['connections']['params']['phptype'] = 'mysql';
$conf['connections']['params']['hostspec'] = 'localhost';
$conf['connections']['params']['username'] = 'hordemgr';
$conf['connections']['params']['password'] = 'hordepass';
$conf['connections']['params']['database'] = 'horde';
$conf['connections']['params']['table'] = 'connections';

I have tried "hostspec" as well as "hostname" in the above, with the same 
results.

Also, anytime I try to set user preferences, nothing is saved.  Nothing is 
written to the database.  I can log in fine using command line mysql, and I 
can access the tables and do a query on it.  I know thats working.  It 
seems horde / imp isnt connecting to the database or even trying?  I look 
in imp/lib/db/mysql and there is nothing there but a CVS folder.  Should 
there be something here?

My pref settings in config.php are:

$conf['prefs']['driver'] = 'sql';
$conf['prefs']['params'] = array();
$conf['prefs']['params']['phptype'] = 'mysql';
$conf['prefs']['params']['hostspec'] = 'localhost';
$conf['prefs']['params']['username'] = 'hordemgr';
$conf['prefs']['params']['password'] = 'hordepass';
$conf['prefs']['params']['database'] = 'horde';
$conf['prefs']['params']['table'] = 'horde_prefs';

Using this login info from the command line, everything is fine.  Any 
ideas?  I use 2.2 IMP just fine, but I am really diggin 2.3.7 and would 
love to switch over :)

Joe Jenkins