OMG... the 1.0.6 merge to qa worked without jumping through jboss-as-binaries hoops... that's a good sign:
[dsicore@labs01 forge]$ svn ci -m "MERGED: -r 1496:1615 https://svn.labs.jboss.com/trunk/forge into qa. Testing for the 1.0.6 release of Labs begins."
Committed revision 1616.
So.. this means.. lock down your dev tasks for 1.0.6. Let's get this one tested and out the door.