upgrading php from 5.2 to 5.3

I'm trying to upgrading php from 5.2 to 5.3 manualy.
i downloaded the C9 x86 Thread Safe (2012-Nov-21 22:03:51) zip file, opened it into c:\php
did what it said in this manual http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.manual.php
first off, I had no pear folder in the zip, and no pear-go.bat..
and second, once I did all the modification to php.ini like they said and tried to restart my apache i got a fail.
went to httpd.conf and changed the line LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2.dll"
to LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_2.dll"
cuz that's the dll i have there. started apache, it said "C:/php/libmysql.dll" not found.
correct, that file is not in the zip as well.. so i copy pasted it from my old php folder.
started apache again, not it says "cannot load c:/php/php5apache2.dll.. modul not found"
but it IS in that folder..
any advice?

in many places it says to download the VC6 version and not VC9 but where's the link to it for php 5.3? there's only vc9..
http://windows.php.net/download/