Problem with Terasic ADA daughter board

I have exactly the same problem.

I first burned the QB3_TOP.sof into my CycloneIII Starter Kit FPGA, and then ran the ADA_Utility. But it gave a series of errors:

a) Unable to locate component

b) Load DLL Error

c) Execute (NIOSDownloadBatch.bat) fail , ExitCode:1h

d) Failed to find your board

Meanwhile, it did detect my board-type correctly, in between ... still failed to work.

Furthermore ... an interesting observation was that, I tried running this ADA_Utility.exe directly ... without burning the Quartus file into the FPGA - and there was no difference in its behaviour.

Is this ADA_Utility even meant to work for the Starter Kit. Can somebody help ?