identity crisis ?

so i've attempted to move my 9+GB zoe store from my old Windblowz server to my new Linux server and for some
reason, Zoe seems to pickup the account configuration information for the existing user, but doesn't
pickup the message store and apparently created a new one.

here's the kicker, if i launch zoe from the windows system (mounting the share on the linux server via CIFS)
it launches into the same message store.  however, when i launch the same exact zoe from within linux, i get
the same user config, but the new "empty" message store.

to launch zoe, i use the following windows command script:
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start /min /b /belownormal java -Duser.name=speedster -jar zoe.jar daemon
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to launch zoe within linux, i use the following init.d script:

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# chkconfig: 2345 80 20
# description: Zoe is google for email :)
# processname: zoe

# Source function library.
 /etc/init.d/functions

javapath=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_07/bin/java
zoepath=/mnt/filer/usr/speedster/Zoe
logpath=/var/log/zoe

test -x $zoepath/Zoe.jar || exit 0

RETVAL=0