installing apache2 on woody

["Paulsen, Jay" <jay-paulsen@uiowa.edu>]

I'm new to Debian, just having installed woody.  However, I'd like to run
apache2 and possibly some other packages that are available only on the
testing distribution.  Can I just point apt-get to the testing distribution
and install apache2 binaries from testing onto woody, or is it better to
install the  source packages and build it on woody?  When I do an "apt-get
-s -u build-dep apache2-common" it looks like it has to install more
packages than if I do an apt-get -s -u install apache2-common".  I thought
building it from source would be less intrusive than getting the binaries.
Or I am I looking at this wrong?  

This is my first attempt at using a package manager on a Linux distribution.
Previously, I built apache2 on a SuSE install from source downloaded
directly from the apache web site.  

Any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated. 

TIA
-Jay