2003 to 2008 Upgrade

I am planning on upgrading (inplace) the main domain controllers from 2003 to 2008 in our environment. First I will give some information on our network then my questions and concerns.
Information:
1. We have our FSMO roles divided up on two DC's.
2. Server A has Schema Master, Operations Master & Infrastructure Master
3. Server B has RID & PDC
4. We are running exchange 2003 with the latest service pack
5. We also have Citrix 4.0 on 2003 with the latest service pack.
Questions / Concerns:
1. Which one of the two FSMO roles should be upgraded first? Does it matter?
2. I eventually want to be on 2008 R2, once have the servers upgrade to 2008, can R2 upgrade be done without a total upgrade from scratch? Since R2 is 64bit only, will exchange have any problems with R2 or 2008 DC at all?
http://www.netometer.com/video/tutorials/windows-dc-2008-inp lace-upgrade/

I am not planning on upgrading the exchange server yet, My exchange server is running on 2003 ENT SP2 32bit.  What I am curious about is, once I have the domain controllers upgraded to 2008, then 2008 r2, will my exchange as it is have any problem communicating with the DC's that will be on 64 bit?  
 No, your exchange will have no problem communicating with DC on 64bit servers.
Regarding doing a clean install on both DC's, can you elaborate a bit more? Is it better, to install a 2008 server on a new server, making a member of the domain, and then move the FSMO roles to that server?  Once this is done, upgrade A, & B, and move the fsmo roles over? Is this what you are referring to?
I was suggesting that, you do a clean install, that is reformat hard drive and install W2K8 from scratch which is far much better that an inplace upgrade. To do that, I suggested you move all FSMO roles to say Server A, then reformat and install W2K8, promote to a domain controller check that all is working well, then move FSMO roles to it and then do same for Server B. If you decide to do this you must consider the other roles that either server A or B have, such DNS, DHCP etc
But if you want to stay with your original plan of an inplace upgrade, I then suggested that you to TRANSFER the RID and PDC role (temporarily)from server B to Server A, then do an inplace upgrade of server B after success, then move all 5 roles to Server B and inplace upgrade Server A and then move your FSMO roles as they originally where..This is just incase some hardware or other failures might occur during upgrade.
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