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No, you must use the one rpovided. Or figure out which svn revision Niko used. But it's likely that there is no such revision number as local changes might have changed the dll slightly.
As hybrid says, it's a different, incompatible version with some changed features. I'm currently merging some of them back into Irrlicht, the next release will be compatible with Irrlicht again.