It would be nice to see this module maintained; at the moment it seems to be abandoned. I would be happy to be a maintainer or co-maintainer if that would help, though I'm not sure how much time I would have for the Drupal 5 branch. I have done a quick rewrite of the module for Drupal 6 that I'm already using on production sites (see my comment at http://drupal.org/node/277971#comment-3969780), and I'm planning to use it or something like it for an installation profile I'm developing, but it must have a valid release on Drupal.org and as it stands that seems unlikely.