I found one of Beo's quotes:
The chief concern you are facing with the order of installation is the patcher software. The patches that ship on the installation media are invariably the oldest versions available and often cause as many or more bugs as they supposedly solve.
For this reason, I prefer to strip the game off the hard drive completely and re-install everything in the order I explain in this post: (url no longer available) This is also the method recommended by tech support for both EA and Aspyr.