Can't run patch 3.24 for a flash drive install...

[earwicker7]

My workplace admins won't let us install games to our computers, but I can run them from a flash drive. I was able to get version 3.0 to run fine from the flash drive, but the patch installation program will not finish without crashing... it gets to about 17% and then I get the "not responding" Windows 7 circle of doom.

I've tried running the patch from the main drive and from the flash drive; I've also tried it on both my home and work computers. None of these options leads to a successful patch. I'm successfully running version 3.24 on my home computer, so unless the download has changed recently (maybe the patch is corrupted on Shrapnel's end?) it's not the patch itself, it's the fact that it's being patched to a flash drive.

I really need version 3.24; the purpose of this is to give me a little extra time (sometimes work is slow, so I often have 1/2 hour or more of free time) to work on my MP game, so any other version is worthless.