Why don't I learn to keep my big mouth shut?

2.3.1 svn trunk seems to run OK on SME8 beta 4 with Asterisk 1.6.1 - yes, we've done a little bit of testing (not much). We found a few minor glitches (for example, it won't tell the time when you do *55*), but we've not had the time to give it a proper shakedown.
I tried sail-2.3.1-20 on the same test platform and it seems OK also.
However, SME 8.0B4 uses kernel-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5, which is so recent that no one has any Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6 rpms for it.
so....
You'll need to do what we did and build Asterisk from source.
Let me know if you need help with this.
Best
S