Upgrading Drupal

Problem I:

I got the following error message after the db script finished running. Is this something serious or can I ignore this or can I set this right in some way?

Drupal database update

* user warning: Column 'title' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index query: ALTER TABLE node CHANGE `type` `type` varbinary(32) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL, CHANGE `title` `title` varbinary(128) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL in /home/ciosaorg/public_html/47upgrade/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.
* user warning: Column 'name' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index query: ALTER TABLE term_data CHANGE `name` `name` varbinary(255) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL, CHANGE `description` `description` longblob DEFAULT '' NULL in /home/ciosaorg/public_html/47upgrade/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.

Problem II:
On the admin page, the settings are not collapsed but expanded. All the nodes made it through the update and the version of the updated site is correctly reported as 4.7.0, so I wonder what's wrong.

Problem III:
Exactly how do I update the contrib modules? They got deleted when I installed 4.7. Is it as simple as installing the 4.7 versions of those modules and enabling them at administer>>modules or is there anything else I should do? Many modules (flexinode, event) do not seem to have an update script to run.

Than

I made heavy changes to my 4.6.5 site that used phptemplate bluemarine but forgot to backup the original theme I had uploaded. Since update requires the user to be logged in as uid1 using the *default* bluemarine theme, I had to download and upload 4.6 bluemarine again before logging in as uid1 and running the update script. For good measure, I also ran an sql query to delete the bluemarine related records from the system table.

Have upgraded a 4.6 site with organic groups to 4.7. Now can't access any group posts by anonymous, user or admin ("No posts in this group"). I figure its something to do with the node-access table but can't resolve it. Strangely, the grant_view column contains values that are group nids when surely the values should be binary, 0 or 1, same as grant_update and grant_delete? Tried shifting those values to the gid column, no joy. I have spent hours on it and any clues as to what to try next would be appreciated. No other modules installed that use node_access.

After a failed upgrade from 4.6.5 to 4.7.1, I decided to start a new 4.7 site.

Can I just copy the users table (200+ user accounts), taxonomy term data table (about 300+ terms) and node table (about 150 nodes) over to the 4.7 install to drastically cut short my time for rebuilding the site in 4.7? Is this advisable at all?

I also had about 10 different flexinode content types. Any suggestions on how to handle this?

I know only a little sql, so I would appreciate examples of any queries I may need to run. Thanks in advance.

I was wondering if anyone else has had some problems with their theme breaking when upgrading to version 4.7.1 from 4.7.0?
In particular, it doesn't seem to recognize this block within my styles.css :

.links {
text-align: right;
border-top: 1px dashed #154ead;
border-bottom: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-right: 15px;
}

Any suggestions?

If anyone else out there is running a cookie-less 4.7 site (which requires porting trans_sid code from the 4.6 drupal_goto() function) and is having problems running the update script the answer is that cookies need to be enabled (in php) for the update to work (i.e. the PHPSESSID url string is not working properly with the refresh code).

You need to change the following in settings.php before hitting update.php
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