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I believe it would be in the best interest of time as well as sanity to import the old config files to a completely new install, this way you know where you sit, and have the ability to configure it to your liking. Not to mention that it will be a heck of a lot faster than troubleshooting the old system.
Here are the instructions for installing from source: