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I just upgraded to WordPress 2 and it already looks like a significant improvement over even its most recent former version. It makes me want to spend less time developing Web applications for my employer’s clients and more time working on PageDrive, which I have barely touched in maybe a year. Anyway, let me know if the site gives you any trouble.

Update 1 (1:32am): WordPress 2 has been returning “Error 404 - Not Found” messages instead of this post; once, a server error message appeared in place of the upload form on the post page; several times, attempting to resave this article (e.g., to change the post slug) has resulted in an “Internal Server Error” message, and various pages—especially the dashboard—have been appearing with missing content. I am presently using Firefox 1.5 under Mac OS X 10.4.4; I will try to check things out under Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2) and various other browsers when I am less tired.

Update 2 (2:13am): It looks like WordPress 2 still has some permalink and database issues; the “Default” permalink option seems to work fine, but both the “Date and name based” and “Numeric” options result in the error I described above. Looking into the database reveals that the wp_posts.post_name and wp_posts.guid values still fall out of synch, but I am not sure if that is relevant to this particular problem. I have tried deleting my .htaccess files both in the “wordpress” directory (so that one would be regenerated) and in my Web root directory (in case any of my .htaccess stuff was interfering with the WordPress .htaccess stuff), but none of that seemed to have any effect. I have come across some posts from other people who have encountered the same or similar problems, but if a solution exists, I have not yet found it and I am now too tired to keep looking before getting some sleep.