Would someone please take DirectX to court about their outright LIES about 'backwards compatibility'?!! :-)
Just to point out the bleeding obvious. DirectX is a technology and is owned by Microsoft who happen to have some very clever (and expensive) lawyers as well as a EUL that basically says tough sh*t if it don't work right. Other wise I would have taken them to court a long time ago just for registering the word "Windows" as a copyright/trade mark ;).
@kev
To solve problems like this you need to have a few spares kicking around that you can swop around.