Comment 1 for bug 520265

While not addressing the entire issue you indicate, the current lucid package (which is r1180) includes fixes which restore client compatibility for the SOAP interface up to api-2009-11-30 and tools-46266:

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revno: 1176
committer: decker <decker@hawaii>
branch nick: 1.6.2
timestamp: Fri 2010-02-05 04:17:25 -0800
message:
  fixes for common operations to restore client compatibility for ec2 41510, 41620, 42584, 45772, 46266.
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