> I re-downloaded the plugins last week, and when I ran them the first
> time, they asked me: "Updates available. Download?" (or words to that
> effect), which I did.  It seems that Michael has an update mechanism
> implemented, which doesn't fix the obsolescence problem, but does fix
> the re-download problem (barring VM changes).

VM changes are actually quite simple - the VM is (compared to the image)
rather small and we *can* point people from the image to the right update
site. We've actually done it.

Cheers,
  - Andreas