Faxing with Leopard?

Contemplating upgrading my 2001 Quicksilver from Tiger to Leopard (even though I understand Leopard will suck up 1/3 of my 1.5GB of RAM to run). In addition to running a secure shell server and (ssh-tunneled afp) file server and a small smtp/imap mail server over my DSL connection, I send and receive faxes with that computer over that common voice/fax/DSL phone line. I have the distinctive ring feature from the phone company so I did the fairly well known modification to /usr/bin/fax (editing the line that says INIT="-iZ -i&FE0&D2S7=120 -i&C0 to read INIT="-iZ -i&FE0&D2S7=120 -i&C0-SDR=2) to differentiate between incoming voice and incoming fax calls. That way, I can have an inbound fax to the alternate number on that phone line answer immediately, and the internal fax modem ignores standard voice calls to the primary number (so it can ring for up to half a dozen or so rings until either I answer the phone or the voice mail software takes the message).
There are a number of posts in this forum that suggest that faxing is a bit of a challenge under Leopard. I am wondering if anyone, preferably with a DSL connection running on their phone line (just so I know they're more like my configuration), is successfully sending and receiving faxes under Leopard through their internal modem, and has successfully implemented the distinctive ring feature to differentiate between incoming voice and incoming fax calls, and if so, what did they have to do to make distinctive ring and receive faxes on their computer work? At least one other thread in this forum suggests that the old "append -SDR=2" trick doesn't work in Leopard.
Thanx in advance.

Actually it was just my comeback to the Madison Avenue tout of "300+ Improvements in Leopard!", which seems to mean changes, which means at the very least, things won't work as they did yesterday.
Other than perusing the Leopard Help forums...
http://www.google.com/search?q=what%27sbroke+inleopard&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

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