Andrew fixed the first problem now, but more probably lurk under the surface. I'm going to be putting up a new Subversion snapshot today, and hope it will fix your problem. If not, just reopen the bug report :-)
Unfortunately, I've purged samba* and then installed samba 4, so I can't retest. But the configuration was nothing special anyway, default samba 3 debian smb.conf with writeable homes, and my username/password with smbpasswd added.
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