Calling all gaming/computer geeks: HELP.

We just patched our Diablo II expansion up to version 1.10, and we are molto unimpressed. Players 8 no longer works, with the result that my char (already overpowered at level 28 at the end of chapter 2) will never level again, and now everything moves a shitload faster and deals a metric gigashit more damage, with the result that I'm dying in a squeal of anguish every five minutes and my hireling got wasted by a couple of puny Unravellers. WTF?

We wish our favourite game defucked RIGHT NOW.

Basically, does anyone know any way I can convert the game back to version 1.09 without having to uninstall, reinstall and patch up?