Symbian reanimates software patent debate

Nicked off some other lists I read; I haven't seen this echoed here yet. 
Symbian recently got a Court decision overturning a UKIPO decision to 
refuse them a software patent:

    http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2008/518.html

Actually, Symbian has *two* patents they are appealing. This decision 
concerns the first of these two challenges:

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/patent/p-decisionmaking/p-challenge/p-challenge-decision-results/p-challenge-decision-results-bl?BL_Number=O/209/07
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/patent/p-decisionmaking/p-challenge/p-challenge-decision-results/p-challenge-decision-results-bl?BL_Number=O/238/07

One imagines if they succeed with the first, they may well succeed with 
the second. These patents in my best lay person's explanation:

   1. All about using DLL libraries. The idea with a DLL is that your
      program can call functions from a library, and you have to
      identify that function either by name or by the index into the
      library. This patent claims a slightly different way of doing the
      look-ups so that when libraries are changed in the future, the
      linkage still works. (Actually, I can't claim to really understand
      this - it seems to be a way of keeping an ABI consistent, but not
      much of it makes sense in the context of how I understand
      libraries to work ;)
   2. A method of accessing files in two directory hierarchies. This is
      worse than it sounds - it basically sounds like a method of
      "mounting" a second directory hierarchy onto the first, but not at
      a file system level - e.g., they propose to use string
      stripping/replacing as one way of doing it. As an example, if you