If I add a ldap suffix and then use swat, swat automatically appends it to the other ldap dns. Too bad it does it every time. I've written a small patch to remove automatic appending from src/param/loadparam.c.
feel free to upload your patch to bug 328 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 328 ***
originally reported against one of the 3.0.0rc[1-4] releases. Cleaning up non-production versions.