Son of SmartPart Spotted in the Wild
(... in the World Wild Web that is :-) Ian Morrish has deployed the Son of Smart Part on his SharePoint server, and he has a demo page! So if you are still in the denial phase, check it out: ASP.NET 2.0 Web User Controls can run in the current version of SharePoint. :-) In the meanwhile I'm still looking for cheap SharePoint hosting (including .NET 2.0 and WSS SP2), but so far my current hosting provider (WebHost4Life) seems to have the best deal. Unfortunately they are not yet running WSS SP2.