New Post: Do we HAVE to put the Updates in SP\2010\Updates folder?

I had my slipstreamed binaries under SharePoint, but after installation, I see that I was at RTM instead of being at the level I was hoping (the updates folder under the SharePoint binaries folder did indeed have the updates in there). I copied the updates from there and put them in the sp\2010\updates and reran the autospinstaller, but it didn't seem to see them (probably because SharePoint was already installed?)

I wanted to know if I should have had them in the AutoSP path instead of as a part of the SharePoint binaries structure, so we can update our steps.

Please let me know.

Thanks,
somu.