Column 'weight' error popping up everywhere.

I upgraded to the latest release Beta3 from Alpha5 and everything suddenly ceased to function. Not really everything, but everything related to the images. All views were -apparently- broken. After going into the Views administration and attempting to update them all, I continue to see this error and a specific lack of images:

user warning: Unknown column 'weight' in 'order clause' query: SELECT nid, iid FROM image_attach WHERE nid IN...

It goes on, but I believe that is all that is relevant. This error is thrown anywhere I try to display an image, even in the Views preview after updating the field to remove the broken handler. This error and no images... anywhere.

Additionally, immediately after installing the update I began receiving javascript errors left and right informing that this and that javascript file did not exist, mostly in the administration pages. The Admin > Site Building > Modules page also experienced a conniption which spat out a list of 30 to 40 javascipt files it could not locate and a couple dozen SQL errors. While I realize this may not directly relate to the Image module, the site as a whole has been functioning flawlessly for months until I made this (and only this) change. I thought I would throw it out there in case someone has some idea what is up. It would seem that I somehow managed a slew of errors coinciding with the Image module update, or that the update perhaps tipped the balance and sent everything flying. I don't know and the errors are nonsensical (javascript files named [letter][20 integers][10 random letters][some more int's]) and SQL tables from sporadic sources (modules).

Thank you for your attention.