Yes there is a work around. You replace the original executable with the 1.30 executable. The file as well as a brief howto can be found here: http://home.deds.nl/~mystuff/dk2/
I'm interested in a fix for this problem as well. I wrote a small HOWTO about patching DK2 at http://home.deds.nl/~mystuff/dk2/. The solution to this problem is the only thing missing.