As you may remember I don't know much about Morpheus. But tempted by your statement about Windows 8, I installed Morpheus Ultra with all the extra fixes of yours and all Set to Run in Admin mode. After correcting the port on my VM system Morpheus connected to both G1 and G2 (1 to 3 peers in each.)

I have a vague memory from a few years ago I don't think I was able to connect to Neo then either.
Searches seem to work fine.

I recall there was a bug with a skin which forces a popup to ask which app do you want to use to open the html file.
Did you create a fix for that?