Problem with Fred's Auto-Captions

[djd]

I upgraded IM to version:
HOST Windows
LIB_VERSION 0x680
LIB_VERSION_NUMBER 6,8,0,3
NAME ImageMagick
RELEASE_DATE 2012-11-01
VERSION 6.8.0

I use a script employing Fred's autocaptions. It produced reasonable results in a previous version of IM.
With the more recent version of IM and the same script, same text and same image (178x221), the result is not reasonable.

Before, with size=90, the text "686" was inserted into an image as:
686

Now, with size =90 or even size=60: the same text is inserted into the same image as:
68
6
There seems to have been a change in one or more functions employed by Fred's auto-caption script.

[magick]

There was a transient bug in the caption coder that was recently fixed. Try installing ImageMagick-6.8.4-2, the current release. It works for us. If that fails, let us know and we will investigate further.

[djd]

Downloading IM 6.8.4-3 fixed the caption problem (thanks) even though ImageMagick did not pass the Installation test.

That is, `convert wizard.jpg win:' resulted in display of the Windows XP `Open With' dialogue box with the instruction:

Choose the program you wish to open the file:
File: magick-440BxdUHyvpvPm5

So there is something wrong with the interpretation of `win:' in this version. Possibly I do not have an appropriate
delegate for opening the image, but then the installation test should tell me that.