Building servers this weekend. Recommendations?

[Brett Glass]

I need to build up some new servers this weekend, and my first 
choice for the OS would be FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 if it were available. 
Alas, it isn't, and there's no sign of when it's coming (neither 
the Release Engineering page or the Wiki is anywhere near up to 
date). RC1 has a few bugs that I'd like to avoid, as does 
8.2-RELEASE. Recommendations?

--Brett Glass