svn windows crashing (rapidsvn and ankhsvn)

At work I end up using a Windows 2k3 machine for development. I have a personal svn repository setup for my projects, which I end up merging into vss (which is the suck). I tried installing Ankhsvn, an addin for visual studio enabling svn integration, and I tried rapidsvn. Both programs crashed due to some interaction with my system. Some googling brought back some stuff about the version of svn being a problem. That was wrong.

It turns out that the iconv libs provided with the svn install I used were not compatible with the other apps. Not sure why. I noticed this when I checked out the app with Process Explorer and saw APR_ICONV_PATH=c:\program files\subversion\iconv. Once I saw that I tried the debug build of svn from tigris and everything started working except the old subversion bins. Anyway, if you run into a null pointer error (exception) stemming from libapriconv.dll or libapriconv-1.dll, try replacing the subversion bins and libs.