Two years after the original entry, I managed to push through release 3 with the help of Mr. Patient and a ClubFloyd transcript, among other parties.
The main upgrade is that the game is clued better, and good tries are recognized. But there are a lot of bug fixes, with tons of general polish. The gadget and slider were merged, and you can now skip an area.
(Spoiler - click to show)Store F = LOGOI
Store I = SOOTH
Store M = SAY BS Lots of random chatter was added, room names were revamped, and there's even a Trizbort map.
http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=16475 contains the details of the change log.
Hope people who find it worth a replay enjoy it, and hope this encourages other IFCompers to touch up their game with big or small fixes.