Hi GarnettAMD, it sounds like you just need the latest PFM schema. You can get that
here which at the of writing is the b9beta one. Just copy the files from that in to your PFM folder and overwrite the existing files.
As to updating for patches all you need to do is make sure that CA haven't changed anything you use in your mods, and if they have you need to redo those parts. For instance, recently they removed an unused column from a table even without changing anything else about it, so any mod using that table would need to put all of their changes in to a new table without that column.