Sansa Updater for Sansa Express - can it be trusted?

Thanks, tapeworm.  Yes, I am familiar with that thread - most of the people posting there had some of the same problems as I had last October - the procedure of holding down the volume key is particularly hit and miss and the other steps mentioned in the instructions sometimes occur and (for me) sometimes did not.   Let me rephrase my question, then - has the installation procedure for the latest release of the firmware  been improved and what are the benefits/bug fixes in the latest version of the firmware?  If  I’m going to have the same upgrade problems as last October for no real benefit, I’ll be sticking wth the current versison.    At least the device works and serves my needs at the moment, some users were forced to abandon theirs after the firmware update screwed things up.