Jeff,
Yikes! I'd say 4 to 5 percent FPs is unworkable for a SURBL....
I should have clarified that.
The 4 to 5 percent on close examination is always email that is borderline IMHO. It just didn't end up being tagged as spam in the end. Compared with a .1 to .5 percent FP on the other surbl lists it still isn't that great.
As for being unworkable it depends on your setup. I was tagging DS with a low score, one of the great things with SpamAssassin is that you have things like Bayes to combat FPs and the end result is the ham gets through :)
Regards,
Joseph