oh my gosh! this is so awesome ... i experienced the exact same thing a few months ago. I tried and tried to get the load balancing to work, and even went as far as downloading the source and saw the commented out code you referred to. i just figured i was doing something wrong because everyone from the list said it worked just fine.
i'm glad you have requested a fix for it. yay!
colin
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