[otrs] OTRS on Linux with MSSQL

Hello: Has anyone successfully implemented a deployment of OTRS 2.3.4 or 2.4 on a Linux based system using MSSQL as the database backend? Currently my environment is setup as follows: Perl 5.8.8 (with all required CPAN modules) FreeTDS 0.82 (TDS Version 8.0) UnixODBC 2.2.11 OTRS 2.3.4 & OTRS 2.4.0 Running under Apache 2.2 with mod_perl2. The problem I am running into is that the connection to my MSSQL database drops after each query. I am figuring that the FreeTDS or UnixODBC client is not keeping the connection persistent which is why the login to OTRS is failing. If anyone has some insight or has seen this problem before, I would appreciate to hear any suggestions. Thanks.