Workarounds for issue 1127?

[Daniel Rosen]

My problem is the one documented at 
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1127. Looking over that 
issue, I see that multiple people have offered monies on multiple occasions (as 
recently as a month ago, in fact) for it to be resolved, but that no one has 
taken it up yet. What's the best workaround in the meantime?

Here's a tiny example: 

\version "2.17.29"
\new PianoStaff <<
  \new Staff \relative c'' { a4 c c d }
  \new Dynamics { s2\fff s\pp }
  \new Staff \relative c'' { \clef bass a2 c,, }
>>

DR