Ticket #4017 (IE ActiveX issues)

This has been a busy ticket:
http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4017
I haven't see the problem myself, but you can tell by the activity
that it's causing some issues for IE users/developers. Down the ticket
a bit there's a proposed patch to add "text/plain" to the object tag,
but one person reported back that it didn't solve the issue in IE6.
Ideas?