Just letting you know I am still alive, just a little busy in the 'real' world. I will look into all the issues posted so far as soon as possible.
As for the cheats, do you get anything at all when you try to open the cheat menu? There should be a response, even if the menu itself doesn't load.
A linux version won't be available until someone explains to me how I can compile it for linux in a windows environment, since I have no intention of installing it just for a mod

(And cygwin is not the right answer)