Actually they should not be installed in the order of the date stamp on the file. But rather in the order they were released by Microsoft, not always the same. But In most cases if they are installed out of that order the newer update will remain, I had found a couple that this was not true but I believe they have been superseded. the easiest thing to to would be to use a batch file walk the folder with a FOR loop and install all of the patches. If they uses different switches put them in a different folder and run those separately. Or create a small database file, CSV would work, with the name of the file and the install switches and use that info to install them. If you collect the release data you could add that info to the CSV file also and then install in the released order also.