I apologize, I was in a rush. System is redhat fc2, sendmail 8.13.1, spamassassin 3.0.1 and spamass-milter 0.2.0 (updated for SA 3.0, haven't switched to 0.3.0 yet).
Here's (most of) my /home/spamd/.spamassassin/user_prefs:
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# How many points before a mail is considered spam. required_hits 5.0 4.5
Erm.. that's not right... required_hits should only have one parameter...