Hi,
I wanted to upgrade to WP2.8.4 but had to first deactivate all my plugins to do this (otherwise I got a memory allocation error - a different problem, and one probably due to hosting with 1&1).
When I deactivated all my plugins I got two errors from linkshortcut and a warning:
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'LIKE wp_linkshortcut' at line 1]
CREATE TABLE wp_linkshortcut_backup LIKE wp_linkshortcut
WordPress database error: [Table 'db207188988.wp_linkshortcut_backup' doesn't exist]
INSERT INTO wp_linkshortcut_backup SELECT * FROM wp_linkshortcut
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/36/d183424680/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/wp-db.php:587) in /homepages/36/d183424680/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865
~Andrew~