Upgraded to Bullet 2.74. The upgrade introduced a few bugs, which need to be fixed before Blender 2.49.

In particular, the Bullet vehicle seems broken, and some soft-body demos don't work.
No new features or benefits are added yet, but a few improvements are planned before Blender 2.49 release.

Please update the build systems, and add those 3 files:
extern/bullet2/src/BulletCollision/CollisionDispatch/btActivatingCollisionAlgorithm.cpp
extern/bullet2/src/BulletCollision/CollisionDispatch/btGhostObject.cpp
extern/bullet2/src/BulletCollision/CollisionShapes/btConvexPointCloudShape.cpp

I'll watch the Blender mailing list, in case this commit causes some issues.

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+/*
+Bullet Continuous Collision Detection and Physics Library
+Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Erwin Coumans  http://continuousphysics.com/Bullet/
+
+This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty.
+In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.
+Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, 
+including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, 
+subject to the following restrictions:
+
+1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
+2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
+3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
+*/
+
+#ifndef BT_CONVEX_POINT_CLOUD_SHAPE_H
+#define BT_CONVEX_POINT_CLOUD_SHAPE_H
+
+#include "btPolyhedralConvexShape.h"
+#include "BulletCollision/BroadphaseCollision/btBroadphaseProxy.h" // for the types
+#include "LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.h"
+
+///The btConvexPointCloudShape implements an implicit convex hull of an array of vertices.
+ATTRIBUTE_ALIGNED16(class) btConvexPointCloudShape : public btPolyhedralConvexShape
+{
+	btVector3* m_unscaledPoints;
+	int m_numPoints;
+
+public:
+	BT_DECLARE_ALIGNED_ALLOCATOR();
+
+	btConvexPointCloudShape(btVector3* points,int numPoints, const btVector3& localScaling,bool computeAabb = true)
+	{
+		m_localScaling = localScaling;
+		m_shapeType = CONVEX_POINT_CLOUD_SHAPE_PROXYTYPE;
+		m_unscaledPoints = points;
+		m_numPoints = numPoints;
+
+		if (computeAabb)
+			recalcLocalAabb();
+	}
+
+	void setPoints (btVector3* points, int numPoints, bool computeAabb = true)
+	{
+		m_unscaledPoints = points;
+		m_numPoints = numPoints;
+
+		if (computeAabb)
+			recalcLocalAabb();
+	}
+
+	SIMD_FORCE_INLINE	btVector3* getUnscaledPoints()
+	{
+		return m_unscaledPoints;
+	}
+
+	SIMD_FORCE_INLINE	const btVector3* getUnscaledPoints() const
+	{
+		return m_unscaledPoints;
+	}
+
+	SIMD_FORCE_INLINE	int getNumPoints() const 
+	{
+		return m_numPoints;
+	}
+
+	SIMD_FORCE_INLINE	btVector3	getScaledPoint( int index) const
+	{
+		return m_unscaledPoints[index] * m_localScaling;
+	}
+
+#ifndef __SPU__
+	virtual btVector3	localGetSupportingVertex(const btVector3& vec)const;
+	virtual btVector3	localGetSupportingVertexWithoutMargin(const btVector3& vec)const;
+	virtual void	batchedUnitVectorGetSupportingVertexWithoutMargin(const btVector3* vectors,btVector3* supportVerticesOut,int numVectors) const;
+#endif
+
+
+	//debugging
+	virtual const char*	getName()const {return "ConvexPointCloud";}
+
+	virtual int	getNumVertices() const;
+	virtual int getNumEdges() const;
+	virtual void getEdge(int i,btVector3& pa,btVector3& pb) const;
+	virtual void getVertex(int i,btVector3& vtx) const;
+	virtual int	getNumPlanes() const;
+	virtual void getPlane(btVector3& planeNormal,btVector3& planeSupport,int i ) const;
+	virtual	bool isInside(const btVector3& pt,btScalar tolerance) const;
+
+	///in case we receive negative scaling
+	virtual void	setLocalScaling(const btVector3& scaling);
+};
+
+
+#endif //BT_CONVEX_POINT_CLOUD_SHAPE_H
+