Keeping "qt" parameter in distributed search

[Shawn Heisey]

I have a request handler with a qt of "lbcheck" so that load balancer 
healthchecks, which happen every five seconds, do not skew my query 
statistics.

I've recently modified the way i do my load balancing, which required 
that I add a shards parameter to my PingRequestHandler.  The ping 
handler includes the qt parameter set to lbcheck, but when it is 
distributed to the shards, this gets lost, and it uses the standard 
handler.  Now my broker core is the only one with correct statistics.

Is there any way to preserve qt in a distributed search so this doesn't 
happen?  I am using Solr 1.4.1, but we are upgrading to 3.1-dev very soon.

Thanks,
Shawn