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I, too, make alternate USB media each time an update of MR is released. Takes little time and I'm a belt and braces advocate.
Yes, I have one machine on v7 Free and I get exactly the same as you. I can't find any way round this, so I have asked about it on the Macrium Reflect forum.
Checking for updates in v7 Free downloads the v8 installer
Do you have a good reason for wanting to stay on v7? All my other machines are on v8 now, but for this one PC I need to stay on v7 because it has such a low res screen (1024x600). In v8, particularly when booting to Macrium recovery, some of the pages don't fit on such a small screen and the buttons are unreachable.
It appears the MR site had some ups and downs at least throughout this morning (in North America) and were off- and online from time to time. Various reports on the Net say updates [not working/working just fine] in different daytime time-frames, and "offline" balloons appeared and disappeared for a while during the busiest period of updating demand.