Gd

[Skeptical]

Is there a way to easily upgrade the GD library to the latest 2.0.1 version without having to recompile php/apache?

Here's the site for the GD library:

http://www.boutell.com/gd/

[Nightfire]

You could try to find the php_gd.dll file for that verson from somewhere and then chuck that into the extensions directory.