The problem is that in WP 2.8 scripts are minified and concatenated and the
SCRIPT_DEBUG directive should prevent that.
Here are the lines that should do this, in wp-includes/script-loader.php,
line 705:
if ( ! is_admin() || ( defined('SCRIPT_DEBUG') && SCRIPT_DEBUG ) )
$concatenate_scripts = false;
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