App Icons Move After 3.0 Install

FYI... Just in case you get scared that all of your icons are removed, they are placed on the next page on your iPhone after the 3.0 software installs.

As a follow-up...
For me this ended up being a problem with iTunes, and not the phone or upgrade process.
I upgraded to the newest version of iTunes a few days before the iPhone OS upgrade was released, but hadn't sync'ed between the iTunes upgrade and the phone firmware upgrade. Apparently, iTunes lost track of where my apps were stored, so when I performed the phone OS upgrade it couldn't reload most/all of my purchased apps.
I was able to tell which apps were 'lost' by going to iTunes > Library > Applications, right-clicking on each one, and selected "Get Info". If the location of the app was not known to iTunes, it would pop up with a "Locate or Cancel" dialog box. Selecting "Locate" and then manually finding the application worked.

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