The hotfix updates selfpatch to use the new information. Provided you've installed the hotfix and used the dummy config I gave you (and added an exception to your AV it seems), it should be fine. It really seems like something is blocking the update process, and AVG isn't that great at its job, so that's my goto target for blame.
Now i killed the AVG antivirus Prg, deleted original install, made a new install from original Cd, took again the new download from today, installed complete new, installed hotfix- dsselfpatch and launcherconfig, and got the same effect; it upgrades to version 212, and brings the red error code: C04....could not load the account file. error in XML-document (38,21) does this information helps in any way? i dunno what else i can do.
to get the game running, using desktop button with additional -s163.172.117.137:2302 -logtime -dptplayer -newplayer -logchat -dx
also didnt help, launcherconfig says version 212, but the server is in list as 91.0 not compatible....i am at the end of my latinum.
Could you PM me the file inside of "My Documents\My Games\Discovery" please. I should then be able to sort out the issue, I think. Sorry for all this trouble btw. You've been an unfortunate edge case and I'll try to patch out these errors.