diff --git a/nnunetv2/utilities/get_network_from_plans.py b/nnunetv2/utilities/get_network_from_plans.py
index 8d10cb4a3..be79777fe 100644
--- a/nnunetv2/utilities/get_network_from_plans.py
+++ b/nnunetv2/utilities/get_network_from_plans.py
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 import pydoc
+import warnings
 from typing import Union
 
+from nnunetv2.utilities.find_class_by_name import recursive_find_python_class
+from batchgenerators.utilities.file_and_folder_operations import join
+
 
 def get_network_from_plans(arch_class_name, arch_kwargs, arch_kwargs_req_import, input_channels, output_channels,
                            allow_init=True, deep_supervision: Union[bool, None] = None):
@@ -11,6 +15,18 @@ def get_network_from_plans(arch_class_name, arch_kwargs, arch_kwargs_req_import,
             architecture_kwargs[ri] = pydoc.locate(architecture_kwargs[ri])
 
     nw_class = pydoc.locate(network_class)
+    # sometimes things move around, this makes it so that we can at least recover some of that
+    if nw_class is None:
+        warnings.warn(f'Network class {network_class} not found. Attempting to locate it within '
+                      f'dynamic_network_architectures.architectures...')
+        import dynamic_network_architectures
+        nw_class = recursive_find_python_class(join(dynamic_network_architectures.__path__[0], "architectures"),
+                                               network_class.split(".")[-1],
+                                               'dynamic_network_architectures.architectures')
+        if nw_class is not None:
+            print(f'FOUND IT: {nw_class}')
+        else:
+            raise ImportError('Network class could not be found, please check/correct your plans file')
 
     if deep_supervision is not None and 'deep_supervision' not in arch_kwargs.keys():
         arch_kwargs['deep_supervision'] = deep_supervision
@@ -24,4 +40,4 @@ def get_network_from_plans(arch_class_name, arch_kwargs, arch_kwargs_req_import,
     if hasattr(network, 'initialize') and allow_init:
         network.apply(network.initialize)
 
-    return network
\ No newline at end of file
+    return network
diff --git a/nnunetv2/utilities/plans_handling/plans_handler.py b/nnunetv2/utilities/plans_handling/plans_handler.py
index 518a462f9..11b76dfcb 100644
--- a/nnunetv2/utilities/plans_handling/plans_handler.py
+++ b/nnunetv2/utilities/plans_handling/plans_handler.py
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ def __init__(self, configuration_dict: dict):
         if 'architecture' not in self.configuration.keys():
             warnings.warn("Detected old nnU-Net plans format. Attempting to reconstruct network architecture "
                           "parameters. If this fails, rerun nnUNetv2_plan_experiment for your dataset. If you use a "
-                          "custom architecture, please downgrade nnU-Net yo v2.3 "
-                          "(https://github.com/MIC-DKFZ/nnUNet/releases/tag/v2.3) or update your plans.")
+                          "custom architecture, please downgrade nnU-Net to the version you implemented this "
+                          "or update your implementation + plans.")
             # try to build the architecture information from old plans, modify configuration dict to match new standard
             unet_class_name = self.configuration["UNet_class_name"]
             if unet_class_name == "PlainConvUNet":