mod-ionflux dead?

Hello,

since ion3-mod-ionflux has been removed from debian unstable and ubuntu
gutsy, i wonder if it is still possible to use ionflux with a recent
release of ion3. is the last release of mod-ionflux 20061022? is it
still supported at all? or is there an alternative?
i wrote a german article on ion3 for the german ubuntu wiki, which will
again be available on http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Ion3 soon. at the
moment the servers are overstrained due to the new ubuntu-release. in
order to describe it properly in the article, i have another question:
is there a more elegant way to save your layout than to write-protect
~/.ion3/default-session--0/saved_layout.lua?

regards, and keep up the good work,
tobias