Using images to run the games I find, always comes back to haunt you, the publishers make sure of that. Really, it's too much a hassle using virtual drives when they end up crapping out your other programs in the end, which is why I stick with No-CD patches...
As for Mini-Images, I don't know how to use them, but using full Images was too much a pain, so I haven't bothered to try.
Anyway, will upload the Freespace 2 crack soon. Not that anyone else appears to be playing anymore!