Updating router firmware - a concern

I wandered into the Linksys site and noticed that one could automatically update the firmware on one's router using Linksysupgrade.exe (I have a WRT54GS router).Since my router is a few years old, I figured what the heck. It said it would check to see if it needed upgrading and if so, would do so automatically. So I downloaded the file and clicked on it and didn't see much happen except it extracting some files into my Windows\system32 directory called DDMI2.sys and DDMI.vxd (I only knew that because Online Armor (my firewall) popped up and asked me to allow that.) So I did.
I'm connected to the Internet from a desktop using a linksys wireless-G usb network adapter with Speedbooster. The only other computer in the house is laptop which connects through it's built in wireless card. I don't have either computer hooked up via Ethernet.
I just wondered what this linksysupgrade.exe actually did? Is it going to do something weird when I reboot? I don't want to toast my router. It made it sound so simple that I figured , well what the heck. Then when I didn't see it do anything, I thought I'd read the forums and then saw a lot of comments about making sure one of the computers was hooked up via an Ethernet cable if you were going to upgrade. So now I'm a bit nervous about what is going to happen when I reboot. Any thoughts on this?
Thanks!
Mark

Did you get any messages like "Upgrade is Successful" or "upgrade failed" if not dont worry. if you wanty to upgrade the firmware try the manual way. Download the firmware from www.linksys.com/downloads and follow these steps: Follow these steps to upgrade the firmware on the device: - Open
an Internet Explorer browser page.In the address bar type - 192.168.1.1
Leave username blank & in password use admin
Click on the 'Administration' tab- Then click on
the 'Firmware Upgrade' sub tab- Here click on 'Browse' to select the
extracted/uncompressed .img or .bin file and click on "Upgrade"-Wait for few seconds ....
It shows that "Upgrade successful" After
the firmware upgrade, click on "Reboot" and you will be returned back
to the same page OR it will say "Page cannot be displayed".
Reset the router for few seconds ....
Reconfigure it ....

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