Which Patches Seem Good But Are Bugged?

there are actually 2 issues with it:
http://slickproductions.org/forum/index....3#msg27213

C. V. Reynolds's mega-patch reportedly fixes both of them.

as for the individual .IPS, there's no need for two batches now that you've expanded the one to touch its predecessor.  for cleanliness, i'd merge 'em.  (or apply the mega-patch, copy the hex bytes from the relevant function into a clean ROM, and make a new patch from scratch that way.)