Flash builder 4 productivity issue

Hi!
We are currently using flash builder 4.0.1 and I believe we are running into the source path issue :
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-27301
We have around twenty developers using flash builder on a large project and this issue is slowing us considerably. We tried a few workarounds found on your forums but most of our tools need the path within the project to be defined as a source path. The library path option with source attachment is not really an option with our current setup.
Is there any way to download a flash builder nightly build or get the fix within a patch? (I can see that it was fixed in august and it is part of one of your milestone)
We have someone in my company in contact with a rep but I don't think the adobe rep can answer that specific request.
Thanks!

After further investigation, we found out that we were defining a few of our namespace by referencing directly the packages of our custom component instead of creating a clean namespace as recommended by the flex documentation. Using the package definition works just fine when it is local but our component were located in a swc library.
We were doing this :
xmlns:foo="com.mCompany.controls.foo*"
instead of generating an xml manifest and basing our namespace on it
xmlns:foo="http://com.myCompany.controls/foo"
We think that flash builder was slowing down because each and every time we were loading up an mxml it had to rescan the said package.

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