Starcraft Issues w/ Newest MBP's

The newest refresh of the MacBook Pro's seem to have brought more than new specs and new features: there have been many reports of Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War being unable to load.
Has anyone had any success with these games on the latest (2-26-08) MBP's?
Blizzard (or at least a Blizzard forum moderator) knows about the issue and is encouraging people to post their specs in this post:
http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?ForumName=support&ThreadID=535846

Aznupward,
Here is a copy of a reply I posted in another thread regarding this. The short answer is that the latest update of Leopard removed the 256 color support needed to play older games like Starcraft. A guy who posts as KarlKFI created a fix for this which works, but it is no longer available at the address he posted. His fix reverts the drivers back to version 10.5.2, and saves your current driver congiguration for 10.5.4 as a back up. It may have caused some issues for me which, which you will see if you read my reply to his post. If you decide to use it, make sure you back up your computer first. I have just spent a week trying to sort all this out, and this post contains most of what I went through trying to get this to work. Your best bet is to install an older version of windows (anything but vista!!!) using Boot Camp (free and already on your Mac in Utilities) or VMware Fusion (available at VMware.com for 80 bucks). Then just run Starcraft on that. Here is the reply:
KarlKFI,
First off, I am not that great with computers in general, so excuse me for being a bit slow. I wanted to post all this info in one place so that other people can avoid my starcraft nightmare.
I downloaded Pacifist and I ran your package to revert the drivers to 10.5.2. Here is the link although this page is now missing.
http://www.karlkfi.com/archives/2008/07/mac-os-10531054-nvidia-256-colors.html
It worked awesome, and I could play starcraft again, but when I went to uninstall it to revert back to the updated drivers, it of course prompted me to restart my computer. Upon restarting I got stuck at a blank blue screen. I am assuming this is similar to the blue screen that people have been getting when they update Leopard. Possible fixes are here but they are a pain.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1545?viewlocale=en_US
I learned that a blue screen also can be caused by "incompatible login items". Discussion is here
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7507554&#7507554
I managed to get it working again by booting into safe mode by holding down the Shift key after powering back on. At this point I went into System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items and removed them. I only had one login item which was associated with itunes. After this I seemed to have no problem. However, I am going out to buy an external hardrive and back up everything before I consider jacking around with the drivers again.
Also, I noticed that the page containing your Driver revert package is down. What happened? As far as I know it is the only simple fix in existence.

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