Harknell,
Thank you for that. My site is hosted by Powweb, and I found that when I installed their version of WP 2.3.3 in a new test blog, it worked fine. I upgraded it to 2.5 and it worked fine. I have several blogs in other subdirectories (which were working fine in 2.3.3) but all have had this error show up when I have tried to install 2.5. I am attempting now to reinstall the original 2.3.3 and upgrade. Hopefully it will work.