I have just confirmed it does indeed work.  Care to pastebin your logs and your dialplan again?

/b

On Mar 29, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Fraser Redmond wrote:

I've shifted the  <action application="set" data="media_bug_answer_req=true"/>  to be the first action in the dialplan, and it's still not working.

Before, the aleg was answered, then the variable set and record_session set, then the bridge was performed.

Cheers,
Fraser