Oh, yes, baby; you bet your *** there's progress!

Here's how to enable it:
Open the file /usr/share/policy/etc/current/alsaped.conf and replace "jackbias-off = jack-bias: off" with "jackbias-off = jack-bias: on"; reboot and watch the System bus.

I will be uploading an "enabler" package to extras-devel later on today along with a quick daemon that pauses/plays a track in the Media Player. Ultimately, if thp allows it, I'd like to get it into headphoned but thp uses libdbus and I like dbus-glib...