Everything works fine for me. I downloaded and replace that file. The only thing is the launcher repatches everytime. Its bothersome but I can live with it for now.
I had a similar startup error, which would happen after the patcher would repatch itself, that was described as a connection problem to the wasabii servers and it couldn't connect, and to try later. Well Eventually after reinstalling, and repatching, and resetting my router, the problem would occure BEFORE it would repatch itself.
I did a ipconfig/flushdns in an administrator command prompt... not saying it will fix your problems, if they still exist, but it helped me so that I could redownload the patches.