No, I think there was a version done for either the 'Reluctant Admiral' mod or the other big one - the name of which escapes me just now - that further strangles things. In the same way that 'realism' mods just don't seem terribly appealing to me any more, this just sounds horrible. Maybe I'm getting old.
You might be right about the version that comes with the game, though. It's been a long while since I looked through all the little txt files in the folder.