wow, I think i finally have it running.
what the problem was, i'm not quite sure, but a few things that might have lead to success:
playing around with different combinations of different apache module versions for mod_authz_svn.so, mod_dav.so, mod_dav_fs.so and mod_dav_svn.so mostly mod_authz_svn.so i think might have been the cause, I kept getting event log entries when restarting apache
quote:
Syntax error on line 130 of F:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.8/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load F:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.8/modules/mod_authz_svn.so into server: The specified module could not be found.
even though the file does exist
tried using both apache 2.2.8 and .9, finally got the original .8 to run
using WAMPServer, mod_authz_svn.so from the apache 2.2 binaries from subversion.tigris.org,
The binary package for svnserver is the CollabNet win32 installer
hopefully this info can save someone else a few hours worth of experimenting and research