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You did ask Does anybody else now have a problem of incompatibility?
Try deleting everything from Bitcoin and armory except wallets. Fully sync Bitcoin before starting armory.
Actually Bitcoind shouldn't be running afaik, armory starts qt not d I think, I run it manually though
You might have an old version running somehow or another program running it for you
Thanks for your help. You are right - I did ask that, although it was more of a rhetorical question - I was already assuming that the new version was working ok for a lot of people, otherwise I guess it wouldn't have been released yet!
Anyway, I've got Armory up and running now - I just have to run Bitcoin core/q/d on it's own.