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# I do.
Interestingly it is the very infinitive which the OED use to explain that it is acceptable to split the buggers..
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 11:53, archived)
# its a minefield i say!
:D
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 11:54, archived)
# it's the one everyone knows
An author once said to me "how dare you split an infinitive in my name!"
He had no answer to my explanation of why it is perfectly acceptable in English.

edit/ You, however, have used the word 'which' when you clearly meant 'that'. Tsk!
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 12:03, archived)