Was this fixed in beta 5?
Ricks last comment does say "No", but the topic has been marked with "fixed in b5".

Directly after installing beta 5, I saw that this was working, however it took long time (at least 30 sec) before the control panel opened.

Now, or rather since yesterday, I was not able to open the control panel any more. When I tried to open it, the browser works for some time and then stops and leaves an empty white screen.
So I went into the code and removed samt line once more (in beta 5 it is line 3039), and then I was able to open the control panel.

As I can recall I see no difference between how the control panel looks now and before.
What is this "raw" line supposed to do?
Is it supposed to get the UBB Announcements or what? I still see them now, even with this line removed.