LION SERVER - DO NOT UPGRADE - NO APPLE SUPPORT

I run a small independent business and use OS-X Server to support both my company and my family.  I had participated in the beta testing as part of the developer program (at my own expense) and filed my bugs and stayed quiet as I was supposed to do.  When Lion was finally released this week, I again did everything I was supposed to do - I made a complete back image of my SL server, I followed all of the instructions and preparations.  I knew what issues to exepct from my testing.  Everything should be good, right?
NO.  The final build behaved in a completely unpredictable way.  I even had to restore from back up and install again.  After hours of fighting the server.app tool I finally got mail back up for my users.  Thats the only sevice that runs.  All web based services are down.  iCal services are down.
I fought this for hours last night, finally giving up at about 1 AM.  I scheduled an express lane call with Apple at 9:15 this morning.  The people I talked to would and could do nothing except ask me to run the EDC and call back at some time next week, maybe engineering would have an answer then.  They would not even halpp me in trying to decode some of the cryptic console messages.  Nothing.
What makes this even worse is that Apple robbed me of all of the tools to try and troubleshoot the system myslef and affect the configuration.  All web, ical, and address book tools are gone from Server Admin.  This despite months of devforums posts begging Server Foundations for them.  I cant alter the files manually because Lion automatically rewries them on reboot or even opening server.app.
What am I left with?  A useless server that I can't administer.
Whats Apple Supports recommendation after being on the phone and trying to get someone to do anything other than blow me off:  Pay them for a $799 enterprise support ticket.  Seems they are an enterprise company finally - Forget the user unless they have an enterprise level bank account.
So finally, heres my technical issue:
7/23/11 9:16:23.496 AM org.apache.httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 156 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_auth_user_host_apple.so into server: dlopen(/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_auth_user_host_apple.so, 10): Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libproxyauth.dylib\n  Referenced from: /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_auth_user_host_apple.so\n  Reason: image not found
I have seen other users have this issue.  Anyone know what options I need to use to recompile everything for apache?  Anyway to hack lion to add the web tool back to server admin?
I have seen other users in my internet searches

Ok so this is the best forum.
This is specifically to anyone at apple from an enterprise mac admin
osx server 10.6 is amazing.  It is the closest thing to a truely awesome server software package.
osx -server 10.7 is about 20 thousand steps back.  I updated two of my dev servers and absolutely struggled for two days with zero success.
it started going down hill right when i found out that you can no longer get media. Needs to be downloaded and installed via app store.  Insanity! What motived that decision.  question? what happens when i need to reinstall software on a corporate network with proxy servers between you and internet?  That little recovery partition is smart until you go to restore a server and you realize that you cant because that boot partition is not configured to get through your proxy servers.  So now your stuck unless you had the foresight to copy the installer from the app store.
ok so you go to install the software and it goes well.(heads up:  that is the last time im saying that) Server boots up in a record five minutes(what).you log in and are instantly lost with the server.app.  Couldnt find a thing, i saw this menu that had everything but what i was looking for.  so after hunting around, then i found out that I needed to download the server admin tools.  so after i find, download and instal the tools, I connect to the server and notice some things are missing, like apf, smb, nfs, etc.  Netboot is off and pointed a different disk, open directory is off.  What happened?  So im upset that i now have to reconfigure my services. so i start out with directory services.  i recreate my OD master and restore my directory, but when i go to create my replica, i hit yet another snag.I am now getting an error message telling me that i cant create a replica because i am using the wrong account. nope im using the directory admin account that i just created.  long story, short i had to roll back to osx-server to 10.6.
now after reading a ton of post and articles and found out that you have dumbed everything down soo much that the server is useless.
Why have all of the tools that enterprise use, removed?I found that i have lost functionality.
have any other admins experienced osx server 10.7?

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