I think Hack was sort of the wrong word to use for this "fix". All that is needed is to copy 4 files into the wp-admin directory, and one file in to the wp-admin/css folder, thats it. If it doesn't work right, you just copy the original files back.
Not that alleviates any ones reluctance to mess with their word press files, thats understandable, just saying there is not much to it...
