Request for Threads or SRM

All, I have been trying to use PHP 5.0.5 for all my programming tasks including replacing many stand-alone Java servers. I've been successful to a degree, but I'm seriously missing Java Threads. I've written some code which uses SHM, Sockets, IPC, and PCNTL, but it's not as clean and robust as it should be. Since the jury is still deliberating over PHP6 and what it will offer, I'd like to put in my request to have a native PHP Thread object. If Threads are too much to tackle, it would be nice to have something like SRM (Script Running Machine) which could be used for CLI environment stand-alone servers. -- D. Dante Lorenso