Forums General Discussion Clean install required for v7.1 upgrade?

Having been using mIRC 6.35 for only a month, I guess I an mIRC newbie and IRC in generally.Finally unicode is supported by mIRC 7 and I'd love to upgrade to that. On the other hand, I am pretty much conservative about software upgrades. And mIRC is major version upgrade. Will I be better off clean-installing for the best stability possible? If not, will all mIRC 6.35 settings remain intact? What do I have to particular attention to?

Thanks for any upgrade tips!