Upgrading Drupal

Not really a problem, more of a question...(just wasn't sure where to put this!)

Short and sweet:
We're running 4.7.6 currently. We were going to upgrade to 4.7.7, but now 4.7.8 has just been released. Is it recommended to go 4.7.7 first, then 4.7.8?

The handbooks asks to copy the .htaccess from the old to the new drupal-directory (see the two pages: GUI and command-line.

I compared them and found that the new one has a different FilesMatch statement (plus a higher version-number).

If I didn't make any changes to my .htaccess, why should I keep the old one?

I was running 5.2 and patched all the changed files to my install to the 5.3 version.

Pretty sure I made all the right changes, I do it line by line with a file comparison tool.

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I ran the update and cron .. but it still says that I am running version 5.2.

What do I need to do here to 'finish the update' ..

Hi, can anyone help me get the images working again?

I upgraded from drupal 4.7 to 5.3, and switched to the Image module 5.x-1.5 - and now no images load at all. They're triggering 404s in the watchdog logs.

I can upload new images fine.

Heres the issue
http://drupal.org/node/184489

When using the audio module with drupal5 , www.example.com/audio should still go to the audio overview page right?

I'm not sure if its something I've done, but its no longer loading for me (in my newly upgraded 5 test site) - just gives a "page not found" error instead.

I did remove some menu items in mysql, perhaps I have accidentally removed the audio overview page URL?

Can anyone tell me how can I recreate it with phpmyadmin, or via another method?

I'm running a multiple-site setup and need to move the whole thing to another server and would like to run an upgrade from 4.6 to 5 while I'm at it. I just administer the server and have no access to the specific weblogs themselves, so I can't login via the web-interface as user-1. I do have root-access to the machine and would like to update all sites using the update.php script from the command-line. Is this possible, and how should I do it to ensure all sites get updated.

W.