Hello Charlie,
Didn't mean to seem rude and no offence meant!- I was just establishing that you're one of the folk who really knows how an SME server is built from ground up as opposed to someone like me who's still trying to figure a lot of it out! If that's the case it's just that you would be in a good position to advise on what's worth doing and what's definitely a waste of time.
As for the LDAP stuff, I think that Greg has already addresssed that in his last post. I only know what he's reitereated.
As far as developing on 7.0alpha as opposed to 6.0.1-01, that's probably a good idea. If I get time I'll ditch my development server and rebuild it to the 7.0... spec. - whenever that may be!!!!
Regards,
Dave