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  1. Extensions are indeed a valid reason; but they won't hurry to update extensions if you just say "Oh we can just use 5.3". For 5.3 zend didn't release it for a year after 5.3 was released. Because of recent changes to the PHP Release Strategy; that means it is likely 5.5 will be out shortly after 5.4 has zend loader support.
  2. Why keep it as a secondary? BC for PHP versions is very very rarely hard-broken (it will just throw strict errors if you have display_errors set to true in your php.ini). Scripts have minimum PHP requirements but they then should work for all future PHP versions. There is no reason to keep an older version of PHP as a secondary. People have the view that upgrading PHP means scripts can break, but ultimately that doesn't happen. The only risk with running the latest major version of PHP is that if its recent <*.*.5 then it likely has some large(ish) bugs in. Feel free to suggest a point why it makes sense to keep two PHP versions installed and I'll be willing to listen; but generally you should only ever need 1 PHP version (the latest major version that has 6 or over maintenance releases) installed. If I'm honest the best thing might be to wait a few days and 5.4.7 will be released (they get released monthly and the last was 2012-08-16) then upgrade straight to 5.4 as your primary and not have a secondary. It would be the best and most productive use of your time and also shows that you provide good quality web hosting and stay up-to-date with software packages.