Upgrading Drupal

I'm probably being totally lame here but attempting to upgrade from 4.7 to 5.2, logged in and turned off all non-core modules, picked Pushbutton as the theme, backed up my DB and file structures, placed a fresh 5.2 file structure on the server, pointed the settings file to the 4.7 DB, browsed to update.php and I then get redirected back to the install.php file which in turn says "To upgrade an existing installation, proceed to the update script." Can someone point out the obvious and let me know where I've gone wrong?

Hey guys,

I've spent my whole evening trying to import the sql database of my community's old 4.6 drupal installation to drupal 5.2, and now that I *think* I got it uploaded right, and hit the update.php script... well.. big anti-climax, it says the update went fine, there's no errors being displayed, but none of the content I thought I put back either! :(

The update page (http://drupal.org/drupal-5.2) with patches #17 and #18 for Drupal 5.1 says explicitly: "We recommend you do the full upgrade as the patches to not contain many of the additional bugfixes that went into the releases."

Why aren't unified patches (a la the linux kernel) provided which would include all the bug fixes up to this point?

After suffering a security breach I have finally upgraded to the latest 4.x release. It went very smoothly except I no longer have the option to set access permissions on individual pages. Worse yet, it seems the old permissions are still having some effect as none of the site is accessible to anyone but me. All pages with the exception of our download section are meant to be public.

Hello all,

I have some websites to create for petty soon (around back-to-school) and I decided I would go straight to 6.0, since I don't want to try to understand Drupal 5 only to have to go to 6 just after two months (I already saw quite a lot of differences between 5 and 6).

The story is long (and very boring for anyone whose gone through upgrade nightmares) but basically for the last 5 days I've been pulling my hair out fruitlessly trying to make filefield, imagefield, image_cache modules to work on a site I upgraded from version 4.7 to 5.2. CCK was installed on the 5.2 version for the first time.