Subversion subdirectory authentication

I have access to a directory within a subversion repostiory, let's say https://svn.example.com/client/dev.  But I do not have access at the root level ( https://svn.example.com/ ).  This doesn't seem to be a problem when I invoke subversion on the command line -- I am able to run "svn update" as expected.  But IDEA continually asks me to login to https://svn.example.com/.  Providing my credentials fails.  Upon project start up, IDEA complains "Not logged into subversion, click to fix".

I have cleared my auth cache with no luck.  I'm not 100% certain, but I believe IDEA handled this just fine in 9.0.2 (I had this week accepted the patch for 9.0.3).

Am I doing something incorrectly?

~ Keith