Hey guys, Sorry for the massive post here, but I asked very similar questions on all these lists. I finally got my problem fixed, and figured I would share my results with each of the lists, in case anyone else asks.
You're all probably gonna laugh when you here what I did to fix the problem: "# apt-get source libpam-ldap; cd libpam-ldap-VERSION; debian/rules binary". Yeap, I recompiled just about everything (postfix, cyrus-sasl, etc. etc.), but I never thought to recompile pam-ldap. My best guess is that the .deb was built from openldap 1.x files. Thanks to all that helped. I still have a couple kinks to work out, but I'll take those problems to the appropriate lists. Hope this info can help someone in the future. -- Kevin