point release login broken

So I go to log into SL. and the load screen gets caught in an endless "cannot contact login server" loop.

Ah, but what was really the problem was I was running 1.4.8 and SL had bumped to 1.4.9. How many neophytes are lost because of that bit of ridiculousness?

Hint: here is some psuedo code to put in the startup section of SL, you can have it free of copyright as I'm putting it in the public domain. Apparantly it is not obvoius to one skilled in the art, but I haven't the time to file a patent.

if(currentClientVersion < neededClientVersion) {
    if(!autoUpdaterBroken)
        invokeAutoUpdater();
    else
        showHelpfulDialog();
    unless
        youWouldJustRatherShowAnEndlessLoopOfBogusErrors();
}

LOL