I’ve got to say that recently I’ve just not bothered to disable plugins when upgrading Wordpress, based on the advice of a friend who’s been running it much longer than I have, and I’m yet to have a problem with a WP upgrade. It’s much easier than anything else I’ve played with so far!

However, I do have root access to my server and do have the nous to get myself out of most problems (and I keep backups)…

cheers,
Chris