Yeah maybe.

Two community members, I and another person built a new wallet and enabled the checkpoint server to avoid this issue in the future.
I've got the checkpoint server running on a system here, and so far it's working as intended.

the link to this new wallet:
https://mega.nz/#!fU4xWJiS!ywdrBEeT7-cxkhAH9ZWLNByNKOPSAMTBplGWC0UXlD0

Note that this has NOT been released yet by the original dev......but I'm sure he'll release it as son as he's aware of it

Here' the bootstrap listed below in uncreamed by the forum format

https://mega.nz/#!rIpEjAjA!HMdN3kGvMEgNUq1yCHqd1Zz5RF3WjjVE10V_jP4Hado