Yes, definitely follow Always advice there, they may have corrected the problems with the newer systems by the time yours was made. They had actually found the flaws in mine when I first did it in 2006, a parts rep at Mid-Tenn Ford in Nashville kept running into numbers that he didn't understand, but later realized were for a new type system for my 93, but I had already gone too far into replacing my system using the original, and they were at no point interchangeable, not sure if that newer system he stumbled across then still exists(for mine, tho maybe on later models).
i hope you find a simple bleed procedure will accomplish the task, but if it doesn't, and you can get no pedal, there is still air in it, and sadly enough, yes, you will have to wriggle it out of there, bleed it stretched from the reservoir at the highest point, and farthest connector(to the slave) at the lowest. Wobble it all around until all the bubbles go up, and feed it back through the gauntlet as an entire unit. Then attach it to the slave and gravity bleed the slave(making sure not to allow the reservoir to go dry).
Here is a photo of the power torque slave cylinder i was referring to earlier, that clip makes it so much easier to secure.