Try 1.2. I installed 1.2 on a new machine and I'm trying to sync it. It's sitting at 6084, but I'm going to let it run overnight and see if it can get on the right chain.
If enough of us get on the right chain, this fork will be a thing of the past.
Key is the pools, we should keep the same versions as used by the pools.
Could do with some more hashing power at http://www.miningpool.co
Minar.cc is now an excellent pool and congrats to sheinsha for being the first, and restarting the pool after the disaster of the past few days. For now, I'm going to aim my modest hashpower at miningpool.co to spread it around.
ethought: Where do the donations go, to you or the dev? I'm not donating to the dev.