Upgrading Drupal

I have 4.6.5 running with 2 websites under the /sites directory on s spare server. I use Apache 2.2.0, MySQL 5.0.18, and PHP 4.4.1. I followed the instructions of: http://drupal.org/upgrade/basic-steps-via-GUI without success.

1. Backup
2. Deleted Drupal 4.6.5
3. Installed 4.7b6
4. Updated settings.php with:

$db_url = 'mysql://abc:0123456789@localhost/databaseabc';
$db_prefix = '';

and

So now I am running 4.7 and I've been trying to install theme editor, but there is no 4.7 version on the module list. I've tried both the 4.6 and the cvs versions, but I keep getting the same kinds of errors when trying to config or create a new theme:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: form_select() in /home/luxuriac/public_html/modules/theme_editor.module on line 465

Background:
ravneborg.dk runs against a MySQL 4.0.24 server, and I'm currently trying to set up a test environment here on my homemachine, running a MySQL 5.0.19 server.

Problem:
When creating the database for the test/development install on my local machine, I don't know what encoding/collation I should use. I want it to be as identical to the 4.0 one as possible. Any tips, hints, pointers?

So, I'm not sure that I'm doing this correctly... especially because I got a huge error message -- but basically, I set up 4.7 CVS and got it working, just perfectly, by itself. Then, I decided to try and port over my database from 4.6.5 to it.

OK, so, this is what I did -- trying to follow the instructions, underneath update.txt as closely as possible.

I logged on as the user number #1.

I then used PHPMyAdmin and dropped all of my database files in mySQL that I had been using with 4.7cvs. And I copied the files I wanted to "update", i.e., my old 4.6.5 database files into their place. I assume this is what is meant by the instruction in the update.php file:

3. Remove all the old Drupal files then unpack the new Drupal
   files into the directory that you run Drupal from.

[Am I right to assume that the drupal files that are to be moved -- referred to in this above step --are the database files -- not the module/core files?]

OK, and then I ran update.php.

and I got the following very long message...


Drupal database update

* user warning: Table 'search_total' already exists query: update_sql CREATE TABLE search_total ( word varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', count int(10) unsigned default NULL, PRIMARY KEY word (word) ) in /home/ithou/public_html/4.7cvs/drupal47cvs/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.
* user warning: Can't DROP 'path'; check that column/key exists query: update_sql ALTER TABLE blocks DROP path in /home/ithou/public_html/4.7cvs/drupal47cvs/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.

Help! I just went though an upgrade of drupal from 4.5 to 4.6.5 Everything was going (relatively) smoothly and I seemed to have successfully upgraded core. I then started trying to put back my add on modules. Everything was looking good until I went to the block module to adjust the blocks according to the 4.6 method. (Up to that point blocks were showing on both sides of the page and I thought I just had to put in the correct pages for viewing) I enabled a couple of blocks, pressed submit, and Bang! all my blocks dissapeared including my personal navigation block.

Hello!

I have a big problem with my drupal based site. Before transfer to another host everything was good.
Path/pathauto module have worked well. How I wanted.
But now everything is wrong. I've changed my host, and path/pathauto module does't work. My past url_aliases works but when I create some content I have only "node/..." alias. I can't add my own proposition of alias. It's not working on "auto" mode too.

Please help! Google put me lower :(((

Thanks for Re:!!!

P.s. I'm using drupal 4.7