Again... I can commiserate with your frustrations : (
I'd only days ago, purged my Win7 PC, once again, of all things XPOI, and downloaded FSDT's latest version from their own website...
However... once it's installer was complete, I'd discovered that it produced the very same troublesome version 2.2.0.0, as I'd just purged !!
Then, like you, I ran it's 'Live Update', but to no avail...
It still tries to connect to Geoname's server api.geonames.org to acquire their data, and this still creates the resulting screen banner:
"the maxRows is too big for the free service, max=500, use the premium service for up to 2000, trying another server"
then very quickly, is followed by another screen banner, stating:
"XPOI - GeoNames server ws.geonames.org not responding, no more servers to try"
So this latest available/downloadable version (2.2.0.0) still generates these Geoname connect errors !!
Now we're left with having to convince FSDT, of this continuing connect failure, and campaign for an update that resolves the problem...
Never give up... we'll somehow convince someone to have another look... please !!