Author here; worth noting this article was written a decade ago, and while the concepts it describes are probably still useful (or so I'm told) the text is starting to show its age. Most notably, the examples are completely broken for x86-64, as I didn't have a 64bit processor when writing this.
The order of the keys is really not that important but the order of the functions each one performs indeed matters. Usually you don't wan't to reboot before you sync :P
I tried to set http301s but gave up when I had to pay for it :)