So I made it to 3.3.0 but now when I log in my announcements are displaying the html with the actual announcement itself and for some reason it seems like the permissions for my host account are being applied to the other accounts for the site.  Any ideas on this? 

Thanks Sebastian for the reply.  I checked my procedure against the one linked in the response and as far as I can tell I haven't missed a step.  My site was running 3.1.1, I upgraded incrementally to 3.2.0, 3.2.1, and 3.2.2. Each time using the same process with no issue.  One thing I did notice was that when I navigated to the install.aspx?mode=install is that the success or fail messages were not visible.
You can view my screenshot here:
http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p...
Is there a setting that turns these off somewhere that I haven't discovered?

I have been using the install package, not the upgrade, which contains both a release.config and web.config.
Should I be replacing both the release and web.config files?
I have only been copying my SQL info and machine key info into the new files, renaming the old ones, and copying the files over.

Thanks for the help
Stephen Gregg

That's what I have been doing to perform the upgrades.  The problem is that while it is going through the process it does not show the success of fail at the end of the messages.  So I don't know if everything is working as intended. This has happened with every upgrade I ran but it hasn't been an issue until I upgraded to 3.3.0.  My guess is that one of the install processes is failing but because the messages aren't showing I can't know which one it is.  Even if that's not the root problem, I would like to fix this so that in the future if I have issues I might not have to do so much digging.

Thanks again for the response, your help is greatly appreciated.