imapd, sasl, imtest connection refused

[ps]

Kim,

I had similar issues with an almost identical installation.  Someone on 
the list (forgive me I forget who) mentioned that the perl issues were 
due to RedHat's implementation and location of Perl.  I highly recommend 
(as many other list readers pointed out) that you use Simon Matter's 
RPMs located  (and maintained wonderfully up to date) at
http://home.teleport.ch/simix/
grab all the pieces...
before using the RPMs  make sure to  "make distclean"  both cyrus-sasl 
and cyrus-imapd in the directory that you compiled from.

i would also suggest using the GNOME  GNORPM tool if you can, since it 
is a bit easier to see when something conflicts, for instance my RedHat 
7.2 had a 1.5.x version of SASL included that i chose to upgrade via rpm 
 from Simon's packages.

i am currently having issues with the setup of the OpenSSL and OpenLDAP 
portions of my server, but that's another matter.

hth
peter