What's meant to be different in release 2.0.1?
Being rash, I installed the apparently updated VE for WinXP, and found that it didn't seem to work properly.
I have a Cubase project with four VE instances and two Kontakt 2 instances, and it loads fine with the initial release of VE (as long as I load Kontakt at least once before trying to open the project file -- looks like a timing problem). However, with 2.0.1 installed instead, Cubase gets partway through loading all the VE instances, and stops doing anything, as do the partially-loaded VE instances; this happens consistently across reboots. VE 2.0.1 standalone seems to work fine.
I removed and re-installed VE to make sure, and the problem didn't go away with 2.0.1.
I've reverted to the initial 2.0 release, and things are copacetic again.
So, any clues I can offer about what might be happening, so you VSL chappies can figure out what the problem is? (My system setup remains as I reported in this post.)