Question about hacks

When you install a hack and it tells you to run a mysql query and you do, and then you want to upgrade, do you have to run that again or do just upgrade the hack itself? I installed the very first version of the Awards/medals hack and it is messing up. Lesane suggested upgrading but I am stuck as to what to do. I know he is on holidays right now so I was wondering if I have to do the query again or what? Thanks guys

[Xenon]

no, you don't need to run queries again
except when you're moving to a clean database then you have to.

[Massiel]

Thank you for replying Xenon, that sure makes it a lot easier!