Upgrading Drupal

This is what the install.txt says about upgrade:

UPGRADING
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1. Backup your database and Drupal directory - especially your
configuration file (www.example.com.conf or includes/conf.php).

2. Log on as the user with user ID 1.

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

4. Modify the new configuration file to make sure it has the
correct information.

I installed 4.50 using Fantastico. When I try to update to 4.51 (uploading the files with FTP I just get a big mess.

I'm wondering iif Fantastico Iinstall has something to do with my inabilty to get the update.

Or am I too stupid to figure how to do it.

I upgraded to the latest version of 4.5.0 with no errors from the upgrade script, but am now getting the following message at the beginning of each page. The second message in repeated 6 times.

user error: Unknown column 'n.sticky' in 'field list'
query: SELECT DISTINCT(n.nid), n.sticky, n.created FROM node n WHERE n.promote = 1 AND n.status = 1 AND '1' ORDER BY n.sticky DESC, n.created DESC LIMIT 0, 10 in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\includes\database.mysql.inc on line 125.

With the newly updated version 4.5, I have inherited the following difficulty: I use a border and image with the 'breadcrumb' links, to fit in with my modified pushbutton-based theme. In the new version of drupal, the xtemplate engine, or drupal, does not put a breadcrumb 'home' or anything on the major node pags, such as /book or /image etc.

With my theme this means I get a squashed box, formed by my border / image, on these pages. Can anyone suggest a workaround? It is obviously intentional that these primary node index pages don't have a breadcrumb trail - or is it?

hallo to everybody.
after migrating from 4.4 to 4.5 I got stuck into profile customization problems. In details, I’d like to re-integrate into user profiles fields already inherited from 4.4 settings (especially avatars, now pictures).
Do someone can provide to me some instructions please?

since upgrading taxonomy.module released with 4.51 or cvs (same), i cannot add vacab categories or terms:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: check_query() in /my/path/to/drupal/modules/taxonomy.module on line 784