If you want to give fixing it yourself a shot, here is an excerpt of a post I made from the v1.1 upgrade thread. I personally haven't gone back to see what else I could figure out yet and I'm only playing single player, but the error codes seem somewhat similar to what I was running into.
So far I've been able to get it to stop throwing an error so you can blueprint or copy a sorter with an active configuration, but it doesn't actually paste the configuration settings into the new entity. To do that I ended up remarking out almost the entire beltSorterGui.storeConfigToCombinator function (lines 207-229 specifically) in belt-sorter-gui.lua. I'm still looking, but as far as I could tell it didn't actually do anything anyway...created some local variables, did some things to one of them and sent the results back to the other. Everything except the ability to blueprint and/or paste an entity with settings seems to be working without it. (Pasting settings with the Copy/Paste in the sorter's gui works.)