Manually Update CKEditor?

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I've dealt with a bug in vBulletin for almost two years, one other have experienced and one that is extremely annoying. The bug has been in the vB tracker for that entire time, has been voted on, yet vB has done nothing to fix it. They haven't even assigned it to anyone.

The bug seems to be CKEditor itself and affects webkit browsers such as Chrome and Safari. Basically, if you type something into the editor, then switch to bold, italics, etc. and then use backspace, the cursor jumps back a word or two before deleting text. I've talked to vB support about this and all they say is that they'll get to it if they feel it necessary, though after two years I'm guessing it won't be resolved.

So several questions: has anyone else experienced this and fixed it? If so, how? Is there anyway to manually update CKEditor manually without breaking vB? (I asked this of vB support and they said no as the CKEditor code used in vB is customized and just updating the editor will break vB.) I'm hoping some crafty programmer has found a way to do this.

I appreciate any insight someone might have in helping resolve this issue.