Note to anyone who cares... our test forum was a fairly heavily modified 5.47d with ~50 modifications on it. It upgraded without a hitch in a matter of seconds to the new version. So, you really don't need to start with a fresh set of un-modified files... your extra profile fields are another thing.
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