Aha! Finally, after about 3 hours of attempts to fix, I got it. Simply extracted the contents of the Redpower zip archive in the mods folder into a new folder - called "A -- Redpower" So it'd be loaded first.
Apologies for grave digging, but I'm still having the same issue. Saffen's fix doesn't work on windows, and like moomoohk said, I don't know how to recompile the other fix. So the question is, how do you get RedPower to load BEFORE ComputerCraft on windows?
Thanks