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I have successfully upgrade my site to WordPress 2.5.  It was actually quit easy.  I simply downloaded it from here.  Moved the zip file onto my server.  Unzipped it into site/wordpress (the default location).  Disable all my plugins.  Deleted all files and directories under site/wp-admin except my .htaccess.  Deleted all wp-*.php files from site/ as well as wp-includes, except the wp-config.php.  Deleted the default and classic themes from site/wp-content/themes as well as the akismet and hello dolly plugins from site/wp-content/plugins.  Made a backup of my database.

Then I moved all the wordpress files into the production locations by executing the following commands.

• from site/wordpress I ran mv * ../    this moved everything except wp-admin and wp-content
• from site/wordpress/wp-admin I ran mv * ../../wp-admin.
• from site/wordpress/wp-content/themes I ran mv * ../../../wp-content/themes
• from site/wordpress/wp-content/plugins I ran mv * ../../../wp-content/plugins

Then I went to my site in firefox.  I was asked to upgrade the database.

That was it.  Now I have the nifty new admin interface!!!

Did this for 4 sites in about 1 hour.