The no-monsters in the battle fields, are one of the problems fixed with that patch.
The only thing i can think of is either that the patch was downloaded corrupt, or that you may have the wrong version of the patch... the australian version has its own patches.
What error does the patch give you?
What english version of the game do you have?
(hip games = US)
(digital jesters = UK) both of these will work with the normal english patch.
I am not sure who the Aus distributor is, but if its not Hip or Jesters, then it is the aus version.
If you try to download the patch again, try to use a download manager like download accelerator plus, it will not only make it faster, but also has better parity checking than normal downloads.
