web but no SVN access

I'm having a problem with an SVN server I'm rebuilding. With the config I
can access the repo via web-browser(either firefox or curl), but trying
commands from the svn tool fail.

Here is the vhost config from apache
<VirtualHost *:443>
   ServerName svn.***
   ServerAlias svn
##SSL Specific options
   SSLEngine on
   SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP
   SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
   SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl.key/server.key

   <Location /svn>
      SSLRequireSSL
      DAV svn
      SVNParentPath /svn/repos
      AuthzSVNAccessFile /svn/passwords/svn.permissions

      AuthType Basic
      AuthName "**** Subversion repository"
      AuthUserFile /svn/passwords/svn.passwords
      Require valid-user

  </Location>
Here is a sample curl success
curl -Ik https://svn.****/svn/sysadmins/ -u me
Enter host password for user 'me':
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:55:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52
Last-Modified: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:33:58 GMT
ETag: W/"995//"

And an SVN failure
svn up
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/sysadmins/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/sysadmins/!svn/vcc/default': 403 Forbidden
(https://svn.****)
And the error log entry from that failure
[Thu Apr 16 14:56:55 2009] [error] [client 10.*****] client denied by server
configuration: /apps/apache/htdocs/svn/sysadmins

/apps/apache/htdocs is the global server docroot, but the <location> block
should pre-empt that, I thought. Any words of wisdom?
(Server is apache 2.0.52 on RedHat 4.x

thanks

-- 
Aaron Macks
Sr. Unix Systems Engineer
Harvard Business Publishing
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www.harvardbusiness.org
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