Dingy Harry; "I promise we wont filibuster...snicker.."
You're looking at the wrong end of this. You focus on the six Republican Senators while ignoring the six Democratic ones. The six Democrats just effectively said that they will vote for cloture tomorrow. That is the only possible way they can avoid a vote which permanently terminates filibusters - by terminating individual ones.
These six Democratic Senators just said that they are moving the problem downstream. But, unless the other Democratic Senators don't filibuster future judicial nominees at all, this problem will come up again EVERY TIME THE DEMOCRATS FILIBUSTER ANY NOMINEE, not just judicial ones.
I.e., if the Democrats filibuster Bolton's nomination as ambassador to the U.N., Frist can use that to try to permanently terminate all filibusters.
IMO this means the end, for the current session of Congress, of all partisan filibusters.