I made the proposed changes to the wp-includes/update.php file, and at least got through the initial installation. Thanks.
However, now linking to Site Admin takes me to a directory listing of the wp-admin directory. Clicking the admin.php link delivers a blank page. Any ideas?
EDIT: I forgot to add “index.php” to the Documents tab of the IIS config for this site. Stupid mistake, but I’m leaving this here for posterity.
Further searching found this thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/204979?replies=12
But no apparent answer there, at least not that I could discern.
Also this: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7724
Which has been closed, and marked fixed, yet I’m working with a completely new install. I’m not running update, I’m running install, so don’t understand how the patch would be applicable.