LDAP Server on Mac OS X Server 10.2.6

I'm really getting lost in this stuff... All I wanted to do was setup an LDAP server so that we could have a central business address book and now I'm diving down in SASL mechanisms and what not... I followed the instructions in Joel's article "Using your Mac OS X Server Open Directory Database to share e-mail addresses" and things weren't as simple as they should've been (and it's still not working...). Address Book on my Mac always returns nothing. When I start slapd in debug mode, and do a search in Address Book, when I look at the debug info and try to find "send_search_entry", it ain't there! slapd can't find anything. There's chock full of SASL errors... If I run ldapsearch, this is what I get [code:1:58bd4ecbe1]ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: No such attribute (16)[/code:1:58bd4ecbe1] The openldap FAQ says this : [quote:58bd4ecbe1]SASL bind is the default for all OpenLDAP tools, e.g. ldapsearch(1), ldapmodify(1). To force use of "simple" bind, use the "-x" option. Use of "simple" bind is not recommended unless one has adequate confidentiality protection in place (e.g. TLS, SSL, IPSEC).[/quote:58bd4ecbe1] So I run ldapsearch -x and get ALL the info in the underlying NetInfo database. I don't even understand what my problem is... Is it SASL, an erroneous NetInfo setup? Please help me! Thanks in advance!