Bit the bullet and threw brad's pulseaudio package on earlier. So far so good. Only noticed a slight pause once or twice so far while opening microb to a heavy page with Transmission (the one from repos, not from that recent thread) running. Just now I got a couple pauses of audio but Transmission has been running for probably near 2 hours (it always locks up my phone after a long period of active use anyways). Pretty good so far!