These installs seem to be getting more complex. I'll stick with 0.3.21. 
WTF? Does it still ask you for ridiculous fees?
When I got into bitcoin, a major selling point was "no fees". I guess the greed got to them.
There never was the need to pay fees for bitcoin transactions. It was only that this specific client did not accept weird transactions from peers without fees to prevent spam. With Bitcoin you are free to use whatever client you want - and changed as you like.