I took the "path to hoseage" (started a game at 1.40 and upgraded to 1.41) and had no problems whatsoever with BF traders or weird item names (though I have a showstopper CTD on act change)
I have already started from scratch thrice (basically once at each patch release), each time from the very end of act 1. And I am getting very annoyed. I hope that I can keep playing with my 1.41 saves upon upgrading because that's the only ones I have. I am not restarting.