a)No not yet.
b)I just reinstalled... the same thing happened to me! Another thing if u didn't notice when the latest patch was installed .... a file was installed called "background downloader"....... i'm thinking this is their "fix" for everyone that has a private servers up where they're starting
WoW with just the plain
WoW.exe or not, but it just seemed odd to me. I read somewhere that they're trying to fix this so it doesn't matter where or what way you start
WoW that it will update to the latest patch!!