ejabberd crash on client connect - expat_erl not found

Hi everyone,

I have been trying to get ejabberd working for the first time with odbc support enabled.

I have managed to get everything up and running and i can start ejabberd from the command line and see that its waiting for incoming client connections.

I roughly following this tutorial to get everything installed: http://www.ejabberd.im/tuto-install-ejabberd

My goal is to have jabber running in a private network environment using MySQL to log to and authenticating from a windows AD server via winbind.

The problem i am facing now is that when i try to connect from a win32 jabber client, ejabberd crashes & terminates.

I am using CentOS and i built erl & ejabberd from source.

i start ejabberd with the following command:

#erl -pa /var/lib/ejabberd/ebin -name ejabberd -s ejabberd -ejabberd config \"/etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg\" log_path \"/var/log/ejabberd/ejabberd.log\"

It starts up and comes to the following prompt:

=PROGRESS REPORT==== 24-Nov-2007::20:43:28 ===
application: ejabberd
started_at: 'ejabberd@hostname'

HOWEVER looking at the output from starting up i can see one error:
=ERROR REPORT==== 24-Nov-2007::20:35:10 ===
Error in process <0.233.0> on node 'ejabberd@hostname' with exit value: {{case_clause,{error,{open_error,"libexpat.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"}}},[{ejabberd_app,init,0}]}

Now i start up my ejabber win32 client and try to connect to the server using its IP address, as soon as the client tries to connect the following happens:

=INFO REPORT==== 24-Nov-2007::20:35:21 ===
I(<0.227.0>:ejabberd_listener:90): (#Port<0.333>) Accepted connection {{172,16,18,65},3489} -> {{172,16,18,2},5222}
sh: line 0: exec: expat_erl: not found

=ERROR REPORT==== 24-Nov-2007::20:35:21 ===
** Generic server <0.294.0> terminating
** Last message in was {tcp,#Port<0.333>,
<<"">>}
** When Server state == {state,#Port<0.333>,
gen_tcp,
none,
<0.293.0>,
65536,
{xml_stream_state,
<0.293.0>,
#Port<0.338>,
[],
0,
65536},
infinity}
** Reason for termination ==
** {badarg,[{erlang,port_close,[#Port<0.338>]},
{xml_stream,close,1},
{ejabberd_receiver,terminate,2},
{gen_server,terminate,6},
{proc_lib,init_p,5}]}

I think this line of output is pointing towards the problem however i have no idea how to fix it:

sh: line 0: exec: expat_erl: not found

I found someone else on this site who had the same problem:
http://www.ejabberd.im/node/1668

and i have tried the suggestions in that thread including setting my EJABBERD_SO_PATH env variable prior to starting ejabberd, however i have not been able to resolve the problem.

the expat_erl.so file is sitting in: /var/lib/ejabberd/priv/lib/ along with:
ejabberd_zlib_drv.so iconv_erl.so stringprep_drv.so tls_drv.so

all my .beam files are in /var/lib/ejabberd/ebin.

Here is some more information about my system that may be relevant:
#uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Jul 7 19:52:49 CDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I originally built erl from: otp_src_R10B-10.tar.gz
./configure --enable-threads --with-odbc
make
make install

I also downloaded and built: expat-2.0.1.tar.gz

I built ejabberd from: ejabberd-1.1.4.tar.gz
using the following commands:
./configure --with-expat=/usr/local/lib --enable-odbc
make
make install

I also installed some other packages including: unixODBC-devel, openssl-devel, zlib, zlib-devel all using apt-get.

I thought maybe the problem was with my erl version so i downloaded otp_src_R11B-1.tar.gz and ran it over the top with the same commands but no change to my problem.

If anyone could help with some suggestions i would really appreciate it, i feel that i am close to getting it working but i am hung on this step.

I am OK with linux but i am not that good with compiling and linking software or the concepts involved with how libraries work in with building software so please go easy on me and help me understand!