Hello Jason,
There has been a recent changes to the Wiki and i'm glad you forwarded your thoughts. I'm working on incorporating your thoughts right now to make the documentation as clear as possible. The following comments addressing your questions will be implemented in the wiki documentation.
To address each of your comments,
CC3000 Smart Config - For smart Config, you need Service Pack v1.10
CC3000 Wi-Fi MSP430 FRAM Getting Started Guide Using Smart Config - Your right. New out-of-box Demo's will have Service Pack v1.10 pre-installed. Older demo's will need to be updated via patch programmer.
The Patch version is Congruent to the demos. For example, Sensor Application v1.10 must use v1.10 Service pack.
Regards,
Nic