All I know is that SW Galaxies downloaded a truckload of patches in the few days I used the trial. Among the SW Galaxies files I attached above, theres a file called "StarWarsUpdate.log" which seems to contain information about what is loaded and when. If this file could be of any interest though, ...
I believe that all the patches are loaded when the game loads. It goes from oldest to newest, because if you look in the .tre files, all you see are what's updated in the newer version.
Modding goes by creating a folder then the file to replace inside of it. (for instance ui\ui_styles.inc).
This is my first time at this forum and using the filecutter, so don't mind my noobishness.. but everytime I try to use cut it, it's giving me the error "439 MexZip ActiveX component can't create object" then after hitting ok for that, It says successfully created.. but it doesn't create.