Yeah, remove these lines from the bottom of the file:
<?php
include('settings.php);
?>
As far as the update… you will only lose any customizations to core graphene files. So, if you have made modifications to the core style.css file, or the functions.php file, they will be over-written.
All of your theme options settings will be retained.
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