You had this issue too?? I went through this a year and a half ago,
with the nlist.mcc and YAM v2.x. I very thoroughly documented my
trevails in emails to the core gods but didn't get far. THey kinda
said I was crazy, so I thought I was. Long story short, I am running
YAM 1.3.5 and it works fine, but its kinda primitive. I use it as the
'backup' email in case my Mac has a problem-which it does occasionally
when one of my Clinton-era hard drives decides to go tits-up
I miss the Clinton Era
Anyhow, I was never able to solve this problem, I did all the same
things you did. The version checker that you use when checking an
icon's version as from Ambient, seems at times different than the
shell 'version' command-it is possible for two different numbers from
the same file it seems. I guess they'll fix this bug too when they
can.