Jon's right. My status sheet entry says "we hope to get rid of places" but doesn't make a definitive statement. I'll fix that.
Jon's got his acs-references package "95% complete" or something like that (Jon?) and we want to start using that. It's certainly far enough along for you to do so even though it's not 100% done. I'm sure he'll be more than willing to answer questions via e-mail, etc.