I too am wondering if it's time to plunge in. I never accepted the 4.06 build 87.8 meg update, never saw the first 4.08 8 meg update and followed all the threads here and elsewhere about all the grief.
But starting yesterday I'm getting a notice for a 4.08.605.2 build 87.7 meg update.
I'm going to wait until I see more posts of successful updates with this build.
So far I've only seen one,
in the "135039-11-19-11-gb-update-safe-yet" thread from PeninaD:
I'm skeered!