svn merge -r 79828:79862...

svn merge -r 79828:79862 svn+ssh://svn.lindenlab.com/svn/linden/qa/combo-merge-2008-02-12 --> release

QAR-280 - combo merge of:
* QAR-249 Allow specifying max http protocol version in eventlet.httpd, and change backbone.py to specify HTTP/1.0 explicitly
* QAR-272 Switch logout/disconnect messages to syslog/streambase
* QAR-253 Test for the group names fix
* QAR-260 metrics-3 for release merge