Inflatable space habitat - ready before 2012?

What's this? Forsaking steps in the plan to launch as early as 2010? Is this because someone thinks come 2012 space will be safe??

Bigelow Aerospace's billionaire founder says he'll be skipping a step in his grand plan to send up an inflatable space habitat capable of hosting humans, due to escalating launch costs. That means Bigelow's Sundancer module, which will be designed to accommodate three people, could be ready to go even before 2010.