I have a fair bunch of tests going these days with a fair few using SER on T1 with a handful of those having nothing but links from SER in their whole pyramid. I have changed how I use SER on T1 now though and its mainly for anchor text dilution and to increase reffering domains to help mask links that I use in my tiers more than anything.
I go over my current link pyramid in
my journey thread post here as well as some of the SERP jumps for the money site pages in
this post in my journey thread. There's also
this thread from about a year ago about a very similar topic that has a pretty decent discussion on the subject. You can see that the people saying not to use SER on your money site don't go into much depth in their posts or display any real understanding of the toolset where as the people saying its fine put up a fair few detailed posts. I share
this post in the thread that may help you out but so much has changed since then with a whole bunch of algo updates and my current stratergy for SER is nothing like what I post in that thread anymore.
If you do decide to go ahead using SER then I highly recommend
you read my tutorials on the toolset here and
my case studies here.