Upgrading Drupal

So i received my email about the security issue.

I started looking for instructions. All I can find it "here is the patch, enjoy".
I look at said patch, it makes little sense to me whatsoever. I have a website, it's hosted (not by me) and I don't have a clue as to what I am supposed to do with the patch. I also haven't located (it may exist, but I haven't found it after 10 mins of looking or reading for it, but I am not familiar with this sites layout as to intuitively know where to look) any instructions on how to use it!

I would just copy up the full release instead, but what about my database settings? I can't find which file contains the settings about database access... no idea why! Would i need to copy files like "update.php" and "install.php/sql etc etc"

I like how drupal looks, but at the moment I just cannot help but feel things are so much easier with other CMS systems, and that Drupal is neither intuitive or simple to upgrade. I can only imagine I am missing something significant somewhere, there must be a more simple way that i can't see -- therefore I am asking a question.

I attempted to upgrade my 4.6 site to 4.7 and then 5.0, but it's now completely broken.

I think that if I am able to change the theme I can get it back. I can't view blocks right now, so I have no way of changing it from the web. Can anyone PLEASE tell me what setting I need to change in the database in order to set it back to the deafult theme?

Thanks,
Ted

This is a BIG PROBLEM

I just upgraded from version 4.7.5 to 4.7.6 and noticed that under the "Create a new account" page (user account) that the "Personal Information" section appears at the top of the page and that both the "User registration guidelines" and "Account information" sections appear at the bottom of the page.

This should be reversed, like it was before the upgrade.

The correct order from top to bottom should be as follows as it was in all pervious versions:

I've been diligently following along the great video on upgrading Drupal from Lullabot, and have come across a snag. I successfully backed up the database files (deliciously easy.) However, I'm having problems with the next step of backing up my Drupal 4.7 files.

As the video instructs, I open up a command line and use the "cd" command to get to the folder "directly above" my Drupal folder, that being

C:\apache2triad\htdocs

Just upgraded a site to 5.0 and have found the collapsible fieldsets aren't working. Anyone else encountered (and more importantly, fixed) this?

I post this so that it might be of use to someone who may also be having difficulties with their upgrade.

After upgrading my site, everything worked OK... most of the time. Every once in a while, I saw a php error about a duplicate ID or something in the watchdog or cache table, but it wasn't often enough to figure out the cause.

Then I noticed that when nodes were updated, their url alias disappeared, pathauto wansn't creating new aliases, and even paths that I explicitely typed into the node edit form weren't saved.