As per Karyuu instructions, I got both Talad's zipped patch and her RARred one - which seem exactly the same   I uncompressed the files and manually copied them over the old ones.

Now psclient still tells me I have to run the updater   but nonetheless it works pretty fine and I enjoyed a nice game session

However the updater doesn't even boot correctly   It silently crashes out before showing the graphic window.

Well, just a notice ... I can play anyway  

I'm keeping a low profile hoping the program won't realized it has some glitches and will keep running as smoothly as ever  

Identical problem here, though with different machine: same error number, same random behavior, same session duration (few seconds).

IMHO it's not related with DR ...

Yorik