The mini-images for Battlefield 2 works fine for me no matter what patch I use. I use the BleH! mini-image avaible on GCW.
About Silent Hunter -
Reloaded cracked the original game when it was released (with the cooperation of SilentGate if I am not mistaken).
The patch 1.4b was also cracked and released by Reloaded.
Both cracks are avaible here:
http://m0003.gamecopyworld.com/games...hunter_3.shtml
About mini-images with Starforce I am not sure that is even possible as it is with Safedisc4 (and apparently SecuROM v7 judging by MotoGP). But reloaded has cracked the update so it should be playable anyway.
Note: I have not tested the cracked patch myself so I have no idea how it works.