diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 6db531e8942..a7fb437aa46 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ LIBGNOME_VERSION=2.0
 STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_VERSION=0.8
 DBUS_VERSION=0.60
 LCMS_VERSION=1.17
-SQLITE_VERSION=3.6.4
+SQLITE_VERSION=3.6.6.2
 
 MSMANIFEST_TOOL=
 
diff --git a/db/sqlite3/README.MOZILLA b/db/sqlite3/README.MOZILLA
index 19638905efb..88dfa575889 100644
--- a/db/sqlite3/README.MOZILLA
+++ b/db/sqlite3/README.MOZILLA
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-This is sqlite 3.6.4
+This is sqlite 3.6.6.2
 
--- Shawn Wilsher <me@shawnwilsher.com>, 10/2008
+-- Shawn Wilsher <me@shawnwilsher.com>, 11/2008
 
 See http://www.sqlite.org/ for more info.
 
diff --git a/db/sqlite3/src/Makefile.in b/db/sqlite3/src/Makefile.in
index be609c9e612..b40f74bc4ed 100644
--- a/db/sqlite3/src/Makefile.in
+++ b/db/sqlite3/src/Makefile.in
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ CSRCS = \
 # -DSQLITE_CORE=1 statically links that module into the SQLite library.
 DEFINES = \
   -DSQLITE_SECURE_DELETE=1 \
-  -DTHREADSAFE=1 \
+  -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=1 \
   -DSQLITE_CORE=1 \
   -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3=1 \
   $(NULL)