KDE 3.4 and Arts Snafu

Hi, I've been assiduously avoiding upgrading my two arts packages since the issue of the new ones disrupting system sound came up. I'm wonder if I can continue to get away with this when I upgrade to KDE 3.4? By the way, I've been following Leen and Lee's exchange. I'm not into building my own packages for critical system components (partly because I don't install a very comprehensive set of "-devel" packages). Randall Schulz