kdialm and SuSE8.0

Has anyone got kdialm working with SuSE 8.0? I cannot get it to see diald. I have added the line "tcpport 7002" to /etc/diald.conf, and I see the tcp session established between diald and kdialm, but kdialm always displays "Awaiting First Message", none of the control buttons do anything and no status information is displayed. Both diald and kdialm are the versions shipped with SuSE 8.0. Looking at the connection with ethereal, all I can see is kdialm sending a tcp packet containing the 2 characters 'U<LF>' which does not look any of the commands listed in 'man diald-control'.