From what I read from Lauda, the General threads are to replace this one.
No, not exactly. They were supposed to put a stop to the redundant questions that keep being asked and abused by signature spammers even though the answers already exist. Regarding this thread, I was planning on doing a *update* to it and posting it myself as self-moderated (not necessarily stickied). However, if you are able to find the time to update this one, then there's likely no need (even though I'd still suggest a *restart* with self-moderated thread).