I played the game several times at 1.0029 and was lucky (cautious advance in game play) - but as I said, the 1.0034 is very comfortable IF
you have administrative rights on patch install (Win XP/2000)
you don't have background proggies running during install
I have WinXP and there were 2 "background" apps running when I installed the patch (Zone Alarm Pro and AVG), each with an additional process also running as a service. I had no problem installing the patch, so I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe it was something specific to your system configuration?
On a side note, is this dude right here <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" /> giving us the finger, or is it just me? Just saying.