lslb 1.7 update - Invalid request filter directive / [ADMIN] authentication failed

[Clockwork]

after the update I receive the following errors:

2010-01-20 11:36:55.596	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "(alert|expression|eval|url)[[:space:]]*\("
2010-01-20 11:36:55.596	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "(&\{.+\}|(&#[[0-9a-fA-F]]|\x5cx[0-9a-fA-F]){2})"
2010-01-20 11:36:55.596	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "((javascript|vbscript):|style[[:space:]]*=)"
2010-01-20 11:36:55.596	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "(fromCharCode|http-equiv|<.+>|innerHTML|dynsrc|-->)"
2010-01-20 11:36:55.596	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "document\.(body|cookie|location|write)"
2010-01-20 11:36:55.596	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS_VALUES "jsessionid|phpsessid|onReadyStateChange|xmlHttp"
2010-01-20 11:36:55.596	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "<(applet|div|embed|iframe|img|meta|object|script|textarea)"
2010-01-20 11:36:55.596	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "on(Abort|Blur|Click|DblClick|DragDrop|Error|Focus|KeyUp|KeyDown|KeyPrerss|Load|Mouse(Down|Out|Over|Up)|Move|Reset|Resize|Select|Submit|Unload)"
2010-01-20 11:36:55.596	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "drop[[:space:]]+(database|table|column|procedure)"
2010-01-20 11:36:55.597	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "delete[[:space:]]+from|create[[:space:]]+table|update.+set.+=|insert[[:space:]]+into.+values"
2010-01-20 11:36:55.597	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "select.+from|bulk[[:space:]]+insert|union.+select|alter[[:space:]]+table"
2010-01-20 11:36:55.597	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "or.+1[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]1|or 1=1--'|'.+--"
2010-01-20 11:36:55.597	ERROR	Invalid request filter directive: ARGS "into[[:space:]]+outfile|load[[:space:]]+data|/\*.+\*/"

It's also really bad that the clusters in the real-time stats aren't being shown anymore like in the 1.6 version.