[patrickj]

One for Tinman / other clever folks here, since it looks like firmware 1.1.3 is pretty imminent by now.

I've stayed on 1.1.1 (jailbroken) as 1.1.2 had nothing that made me look twice. 1.1.3 sounds like maybe it will be well worth a look. Couple questions about the best approach to 1.1.3:

-- I'm assuming it's a safe bet that each firmware update should work regardless of how many generations back your iPhone is. Is that a safe bet? (As in, 1.1.3 should install successfully whether you're at 1.1.2, or 1.0.2 etc.)

-- Coming from a jailbroken 1..1.1, best practice would be to restore before messing with the 1.1.3 update?

-- If 1.1.3 is going to break 3rd party apps anyway (as is widely expected), is is worth taking any additional 'virginizing' sort of steps on a jailbroken phone after a restore, and before doing the 1.1.3 update? I guess I'm asking this from the perspective of going into 1.1.3 in as 'clean' a state as possible.

Any thoughts / answers much appreciated ...