Lens profile downloader issue with download target dirs (Win7)

Hi,
I installed LPD on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and did some downloads.
Now I find that this does not work very nicely.
a) All downloads end up in adirectory "C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\LensProfiles\1.0\Downloaded".
This is not really where Lightroom is able to find them. The Software is looking in "C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\LensProfiles\1.0\[Maker]"
b) While the preinstalled profiles have nice speaking names, the downloads for no obviuos reasons get a cryptic name. such as "92713070afd245e19b229e409f089b38.lcp", which makes moving the files to the right place not a fun job, since its not obvious what the content is.
Anyone with similar or other experience under Win 7?
I think the first issue is due to LPD trying to save profiles to the right place but not having the rights to do so. The "Roaming" dirs in Windows usually are meant for this I think.
Any ideas how to solve it?

Lens Profiles under the ...Roaming are findable by LR/ACR and this is the normal place, so a profile ending up there is by design not because of some system error. It is a distinct location to keep them separate from the vendor-supplied profiles.
The gibberish for the name is to keep files from different sources but with the same name from overwriting each other. The file is XML so you can certainly look inside the file to see what it is for and rename it to something you like better.
Do your downloaded profiles not work as you're expecting or are you just seeing things you wonder about and suggesting there could be a problem?

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Along with last night's ACR 7.2/LR4.2 release (see the Lightroom Journal blog here: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/), the Adobe Lens Profile Creator and Adobe Lens Profile Downlader also got a refresh. They have now officially moved out of the Adobe Labs into the Adobe product download site. Here are the links to the new version:
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