Upgrading Drupal

I was updating several 5.3 sites to 5.7. In my new install I had inlcuded token and pathauto modules which were not in the old install. After upgrading, both image and audio modules were disabled. Neither audio or image were listed in the update selections but I knew I had installed newer versions of those modules than I had in the old 5.3 install.

Am I missing something obvioius. I have had a lot of attempts at this with no joy and cannot find anything on search or in documentation.

I am running 5.7

I have a bunch of modules that need updating to the latest versions. For example Workflow, Token and Metatags.

I go through the following:
Disable the module in modules list page .
Delete the module folder in my site/modules/new/...
Upload the new module file that has been downloaded.
Enable the module (it is still showing the old version number at this point.
Run update.php

Hey all,

As far as I get it right, in Drupal 5 and 6, all modules are in the same directory (core and contrib), as well as the themes. It's very anoying to reinstall everything, even if you only want to do a minor update with bugfixes.

If I want to leave the contributed files on the server, I have to check the whole /themes and /modules directory for which module and which theme belongs to the core.

I initially thought that I could follow the usual core update instructions, but all I got was the install page, and an error that it there was data already there. I tried several different ways, including merging the sites settings.php with the new version and the same database info.

I've searched many places to figure out how to upgrade Drupal 5 to 6, and the only thing i found was that it has to be done by manually copying portions of the database over.

Upgrade instruction tells me to Back-up, Remove all, Extract all, then configure, and so on..

What happens when I just overwrite new version files to the old folder?

Since I don't wanna reinstall Modules or themes again, I think copying the files should work for upgrading.

What's the minimum upgrading process? Especially without removing all the files and reinstalling everything...

J2ON