CA unemployment -filing new claim after winning appeal (extension, file, receive)

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I have some questions about how to handle a CA unemployment situation, and I can't get through to their office on the phone, so I'm hoping some people here might know the answers. Here's my situation: I was unemployed for a few months in late 2010, and received unemployment benefits during those months. Then I got a job beginning in December 2011 which lasted until July 2011. After losing that job I filed for unemployment again. Two issues came up:

A) The old claim from late 2010 was still active, but set to expire September 10, 2011.
B) The claim was initially denied on grounds of "misconduct" at work. I appealed, and won the appeal, so I'm now eligible for benefits.

I had been filing continued claim forms while waiting for the appeal hearing for the claim which was expiring September 10, 2011, and presumably now that I won my appeal I'll be receiving checks for the weeks between the date that I was fired and September 10.

However, that old claim has now expired, and in order to keep getting benefits I'm going to need to file again. My questions are: if I re-file, is the decision in my successful appeal going to apply to that re-filing, or am I going to have to go through the whole process again? And do I simply use the normal unemployment claim form as if I were filing for the first time, or is this an "extension?"

Thanks.