Firstly thank you, is much appreciated!
With the forum account, hotmail seems to be blocking the registration details as you're the second I've seen it stuck on the awaiting activation stage. I can change the forum name / force account activation if you'd prefer.
Will put the updated presets in the install bundle

It might have been related to shader model support changes over time that things changed as we found when getting shader model 3 working ok between AMD & nVidia that one was more strict in how the code is interpreted which is likely the reason.
-dro