I did discover a work around... Coolsoft the makers of VirtualMidiSynth has a beta program they are working on called Coolsynth Midimapper (at least it was in Beta when I discovered this work around, I don't know what stage its on now)...
It is able to remap munt through to VirtualMidiSynth, and other program's built emulators. So I was able to get MT32 support working again (system wide).
http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/forum/post/2120#post2120 It's slightly unstable perhaps, and crashed on me 'once' (causing the system to continually play a sound, and I had to log out of windows and log back in to fix it) but overall it works fairly well
It kind of reminds me how in windows 7 (and VISTA) you had to use Putzlowitch's to switch the midimapper channels around. But its likely working in a much different waythan Putzlowitsch did it... But the final outcome is basically the same for me as long as it does the job!