I share your dream, in fact I've been busy all week getting an alternative SDK setup and trying to recompile the squeeze version of pulseaudio...

So you can count me in!

And it may be a babystep, but updating the SDK fully to Lenny (Debian 5) would already be a good leap forward in my opinion. At least that would get most of the bottlenecks above water without the added extra complications of the usual dependency hell.