[Evolution] emacs keybindings in 1.4.4

[Scott Otterson <scotto u washington edu>]

Is there a way to get the emacs keybindings in 1.4.4 working?  I found
this bug

  http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=41187

which seems to indicate that they've been broken in 1.4x for quite a
while and that they still are.  

But I'm hoping that someone can tell me otherwise.  If they are still
broken, is there a workaround that can get me back to the keybindings I
had before I upgraded from 1.2.4?  As a last resort, has anyone come up
with a set of instructions for uninstalling 1.4.4?

Thanks,

Scott