If all we're doing is baking to a texture, can we skip all the way to Step 6? Seems setting up the information in the previous steps does not apply for baking.
The tutorial seems to be a little out of date. There is now an option to set up cages while baking and I'm not sure if I should not set up a cage or follow your example here.
Here is a screenshot of the new options in Maya 2009:
