Using a SANE version compiled from CVS in parallel with an older version installed with the operating system can be tricky, because some programs will load libsane-XXX.so libraries, whereas others seem to look for libsane-XXX.so.1 first. Both of them are links to the "real things", libsane-XXX.so.1.0.16 .
It may be a good idea to check the /usr/lib and /usr/lib/sane directories for SANE-related entries and to make sure that all links point to files of the same version. Regards, Ulrich Deiters