@Roger I strongly echo Jamie's remarks. Be patient. :) It was several months after the release of Drupal 6 before it was practical to upgrade from Drupal 5 due to lagging contrib. If you are not able to donate development time, or participate in the issue queues, consider donating money to incentivize developers.
Well the cool thing is you could just go with Drupal 6, and the
support will be there until Drupal 8 is released.