I'm guessing the short answer is: no.
The longer answer is that having it disabled is a potential security issue and that it's better to protect the majority of users by switching it 'on' in the server settings. Those affected by it can relatively simply disable it by via a htaccess file in the relevant folder.
I think that the recent change is the setting of "SecFilterEngine" to 'on' as the other for me atleast had already been on. Explained why I was having problems with the quick reply function of my forums which packed up, still all sorted now.
