I smoked the system, and reinstalled from scratch.
I did the following differently:
* installed postgresql from the Debian packages currently on sid - install packages task-database-pg and postgresql-dev
* installed aolserver from source since the Debian package is hosed for now.
It just works. My ACS is up! Yay!
Some stuff is busted (I get opaque "internal server errors"), but overall I'm pleased with myself. I have no idea where to go from here, though.
