Right. I checked on the WP forums and found that others had the same problem upgrading to 1.2 Beta. It would appear that there is a problem with over-writing so they advise you to completely delete all WP files before uploading the new version. So I downloaded a later latest nightly and tried again and the fact that you are reading this shows that it has worked just dandy. I can’t use my smiley and blacklist hacks anymore cuz the files have changed quite radically for example, the post form “Quicktags” are now javascript rather than a text file. Still there does seem to be a few new toys to play with. For some reason my menu isn’t picking up some images which is why it looks a bit odd but I’m trying to sort that.