Received my al619 today, and been fiddling around with it too for about two hours, but got it working.
Latest version of pc-suite is at http://www.autel.us/updates/upautel.htm
You will need to create an account and register at http://www.auteltech.com before you can update anything.
The user manual tries to describe the procedure at p59, but in reality the procedure differs somewhat.