I'm for this as a workaround, but it should not be the ultimate solution IMHO. The ultimate solution should be to get the system working as well as other provider systems do for this task. Doing it all in one operation adds to a much better user expe...
Just messaged the mods about this, as I also had the same issue. Was about to post a new topic and then found this one that described exactly what happened to me. Hoping this gets fixed soon.
+1 for this idea, and also Bravo'd. This is a feature that should be an add-on (or it'd be awesome to have it free of course), and shouldn't impact the costs of plans for others who wouldn't need visual voicemail.