Good point.
I just got back in from trying the bump method as described in in the forums here and it went pretty well. So, I can not argue with shifting to the higher gear. It works fairly well at most speeds, but for whatever reason it still seems like certain speeds give me less of a "bump" at 4th gear. And at least once my engine stalled going into 5th gear, but I was going VERY slow when I did it- the RPMs were too low and it stalled before I could shift to Neutral. I'm still sorting this EOC thing out and practicing the method. At least it's going better now that when I first tried it.
Oh, without a doubt my lights flash when I restart using THE KEY- NOT when bump-starting.