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Like most Drupal hackers, I love to hate jQuery. The primary reason for this is that the version of jQuery included in Drupal core is always several versions behind where it should be. Unfortunately updating it is a serious undertaking, usually reserved for the next Drupal version. To get us by between releases, there's a module called jQuery update. It's pretty rad. It replaces the core jQuery dependencies with a newer jQuery version. It has one caveat though:

The tricky step with this module is that you will need to *replace* the jquery.js file in core with the jquery.js file included in the jquery_update directory...

In Drupal, messing with core files is poor form. Not only does it mess up the upgrade path, it causes all sorts of discontent in a multisite environment. And I spend most of my time in a multisite environment.

my fix for jQuery update in multisite drupal after the jump.