[lipidfats]

First off, please excuse me for this noob post...
For someone who hasn't been following the whole manilla2d development, this thread is quite confusing (especially the xda one)... with all the updates posted on the first page, i'm not sure if i'm supposed to just install the files from the latest update-18 or if i'm supposed to start at one of the earlier updates and then add certain files in the following updates after that... the latest update doesn't give very much information on the cab files listed, so i'm not sure how to relate them to older updates. i tried visiting the xda thread, but with the thousands of posts i don't wanna risk using old information for these new updates.
i found a couple different instructions from past updates, but i want to know how to update to the latest version... if someone could point me to useful, detailed instructions or give me some pointers, it would be greatly appreciated. i'd really like to know where to start in order to get the latest, most stable version...

also, i was wondering how much memory and ram this whole thing needs?
thanks and sorry for asking such noob questions... all this is overwhelming and with warnings of needing hardresets and what not, i kinda wanna get it right on the first shot.

thanks in advance for any help and sorry for being so confused.