Finally, Success!
I wouldn't say it was easy, because since yesterday evening I've been trying to complete the procedure of claiming+donating... Funny, because I had no great problems with other versions of IRI.
At first, I simply followed the instructions at
http://forum.iotatoken.com/t/iota-testing-of-0-9-17-has-commenced/274/2 as it worked fine in previous versions. But this time it did not work. At the chat I was told the problem would be with my OS version or Java Version...
I Updated everything, and as the problem continued, I tested another solution: Not following the above mentioned instructions. So I simply deleted everything, unzipped the IRI 0.9.17 file, and used the standard IRI and config (without touching config.iri or nodes.iri).
Then, it seemed to have worked: Nostalgia asked me about the donation, I answered accordingly (5%). But, no answer... I waited for hours and received no return...
So I deleted everything again, unzipped the original file and tried. But nostalgia didn't even seen to be working anymore.
So I saw dominik's message at
http://forum.iotatoken.com/t/iota-testing-of-0-9-17-has-commenced/274/32 with the instruction to use
http://188.138.57.93/nostalgia.html instead of the standard nostalgia of the zip file....
I did it and, finally, it worked ^^
So, if my experience serves as a parameter: simply use the standard updated IRI zip file, except the nostalgia, that should be the one provided by dominik
