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http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/02/24/dns-mp-update-ships-support-for-dns-on-windows-server-2008-r2-and-many-fixes.aspx
finally!
still not the changes i hoped for, but the removal of the config churns has at least solved a major issue.