I've updated the discussion in the Wiki about the keyboard focus loss work-arounds to include qole's complete solution on the Debian side so that people who shy away from extras-devel can more easily find it:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian#PR_1.2

I've included it under the PR1.2 heading because I'm not sure it would have worked prior to PR1.2. Is it in fact a windfall of PR1.2?