Quartus 12.0 missing 64bit libraries

I just received my first Altera board (the DE0-Nano - very nice to get a hobbyist-high-end solderless-friendly board for around the price of parts, with plenty of GPIO while still including the solderless-unfriedly RAM, unlike a few inexensive boards of other brands) and had this problem, which was very frustrating as a user new to Altera's tool set. I finally solved it late last night by installing the stand-alone programmer, which does include all the needed libraries in its own bin64 folder. I didn't have time to check whether Quartus II would work with the programmer's installation of the libraries or whether I'd have to copy the bin64 directory over the Quartus II version.

I've heard great things about Altera products and tools from others, but having to figure this kind of problem out (while at the same time fighting their attempt to use a downloader) makes me question what I've heard. My searching on this showed it has been a problem in several recent versions of Quartus II and fixed in often as well, which shows some failure at regression testing. It would definitely improve initial impressions if this could be more permanently solved, as it is the kind of thing that could easily drive new people away.