So 8256 was a bit of a mixed bag between the Win7 loading issue & the helper legacy.dll causing more trouble than it was meant to do (so that's gone as I couldn't get it to behave nicely on my Win7 setup due to runtime conflicts which isn't reasonable to ask any of you lot to swap & change runtime dlls).
The changelog at https://getwacup.com/changelog/beta_1_1_1_8282.html & the focus after this is (hopefully) now to get ml_ll up to spec so ml_local can finally be dropped, enjoy!
-dro