phpBB mod uninstallation - tedious

I was experimenting with phpBB (a PHP-based forum board) recently and was doing some mod installation via easyMOD. It was a breeze, though you have to watch out for occasional errors. Manually installing a large number of mods, backing up can be a real pain. You also have to careful and not screw up. Here's what they have to say about installing mods safely.

Installing a mod, whatever size it is and whatever your skills in HTML/PHP/phpBB are is always a very risky operation. Doing it live, even if the mod has no bugs and even if you use easyMOD to be sure to make no errors while applying a mod sounds so like a little crazy.

If you're going to manually uninstall mods, you might go a little crazy. Uninstalling via easyMOD is somewhat easier, but you have to take note of the order that the mods were installed, as the changes are applied in a stack-based fashion, first-in-last-out.
What this means is that you have to carefully consider what you are going to install and in what order to install them. If you have installed 10 mods and want to uninstall the 3rd mod (based on time of installation), then you have to do 7 un-installations and 6 installations. Yeah, that's tiring. I'm guessing this can be automated though.