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I also tried the automatic install from the admin portal and my site seemed to go flawlessly… then all I get (no matter whether I try to go to my base page or admin page):

Fatal error: Call to a member function add_rewrite_tag() on a non-object in /home/content/... .../html/wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 289

I’m not sure if it is related, but I’ve been having problems with Atom feeds and punctuation in the title of a post. I never had the Atom feed totally borked until after the upgrade to WordPress 2.2. Prior, if I had an apostrophe in a title, the feed would have some odd characters where the apostrophe was supposed to be, but after the upgrade, I couldn’t get any feedreader to connect. I went through https://www.feedvalidator.org and found that the apostrophe was being replaced by the string “%e2%80%99”. FeedValidator stated that it SHOULD be “%E2%80%99”. I had to go into the actual MySQL database to change this. The difference being uppercase versus lowercase letters. I had another one that had the string “%e2%80%a6” when it should have been “%E2%80%A6”. It was a pain to change it the way I did. After doing so, I was able to load my feeds and it checked out fine. Why are these characters being coded incorrectly? In case it matters, my encoding is set to UTF-8.

I’ve followed all the instructions to upgrade from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 and something is FUBAR. I get a bunch of errors on the screen… PHP errors. How important is it to upgrade? I’m debating to ignore the upgrade, since it appears to work fine as is. They say it is a security upgrade, what issues are there?