EdV
Well, I had found a reliable copy of the older version and installed it even before waiting the seven days for the new one to revert to the more restrictive, free version. But, I then had a popup that came up at the beginning of February asking me to update the program, and forgetting about the fact that I had the older one on purpose I gave the update a go ahead. Since the, I've been using the 2.x version (2.0.84, now), and to be honest, it's not as bad as I thought it would be. It restricts the ability to look back as far as the older version, but other than that I've gotten used to it and it works well.
I had actually forgotten all about this thread. Had I remembered I probably would have come back and updated it to reflect that my fears were, as it turns out, mostly unfounded.