I spent the last hour upgrading WordPress to 2.6.1. It seems to have worked like a charm, though I continue to be frustrated by the fact that one must manually do so much work to backup the databases, download files, copy only certain ones while modifying others but not touching some or you’ll blow a hole in the web … it’s terribly frightening.
Next time, you should use the Automatic Upgrade plugin.
Hmmmm… I thought for some reason that plugin didn’t work anymore. I might email you off-line about it, since it sure would be nice to have!