Vlad, as Don stated, the driver at aolserver.com has been broken, but the one distributed at openacs.org is not and has had the fix you pointed for quite some time.
It's great that you put the demo up, but could you make a tarball of the working ATS somewhere so I can download and take a good look at it? If everything goes well and the OpenACS community so desires, we could even include it in the 3.2.x tree for others to use.
Thanks.