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There's no way to manually flash update files with full stock, which is definitely a bummer, but unfortunately it's true. The good news is that you won't have to wait long.

After you download the zip file, put it in the top level of the filesystem hierarchy on the SD card in your Nexus One and change the filename to update.zip.