Have actually downloaded this ver twice - no luck.
have you tried to do this?
backup wallet.dat
remove all files except wallet.dat and faircoin.conf in FairCoin directory from %appdata% (windows) or ~/.FairCoin (linux)
REPEAT: DO NOT DELETE wallet.dat and faircoin.conf!
replace nodes as above on faircoin.conf
Run wallet, this will download the entire blockchain...it will take a while