Upgrading Drupal

My Drupal version is 5.23 (not sure about the last two numbers but it's definitely 5.xx) and I have admin access (I am user #1 and my account's name is Administrator and I can change all the settings/permissions/etc.). However, I do not have access to the server files and I was wondering if there's any way I can still upgrade my Drupal installation (don't ask me why LOL... I just don't)? I tried going to /update.php but it seems I can only upgrade the modules and not the Drupal version itself.

Thank you.

Ok so I log into my site today and it informs me that there are security updates to my drupal install. I usually manually update the site because my web server does not have an FTP server running on it.

So I connect up with putty and start browsing the site directory. I navigated to drupal/modules and tried to look for ctools but didn't find such a directory. I then navigated to drupal/sites/all/modules/ and didn't find any ctools directory there either.

Where would one find this ctools module so you can update it manually? Here are all the directories that are listed under my drupal/modules/

• aggregator
• block
• blog
• book
• color
• comment
• contact
• contextual
• dashboard
• dblog
• field
• field_ui
• file
• filter
• forum
• help
• image
• locale
• menu
• node
• openid
• overlay
• path
• php
• poll
• profile
• rdf
• README.txt
• rules
• search
• shortcut
• simpletest
• statistics
• syslog

I am looking for suggestions for a new theme to replace my current theme so I can finally upgrade to Drupal 7. I have been waiting for well over a year for my current theme to be updated so it works with Drupal 7, and now I've been banned from the theme support site and declared a troll for asking too many times when it will happen!

I was unfortunate enough to build my Drupal website using Antsin's FeverUltra theme. The terms of purchase indicated support through two major upgrades, but it's still only supporting Drupal 6 and they won't even suggest a date when it will be upgraded, despite having said over a year ago that it would be. So having spent over 1000 hours in customisation and over $1000 in freelancer support for the current theme, I now have to walk away from it in disgust.

What I need is a contemporary magazine-style theme with theme support for advanced forums module, something like what I am currently using at www.bikesonshow.com. I've looked at a lot of Drupal 7 magazine themes, but can't find any others with declared support for advanced forums. I've also looked at lots of advanced forum themes, but none seem to have a nice magazine-style home page.

Our website was built for us and i have just been handed it to "finish and improve". they installed 6.x when they built it and i would like to upgrade to 7.x but, im not going to lie, s%$t scared of it f*£king up our site and i wont be able to recover it.
i just wanted to make sure that upgrading should not cause any errors with our site (i think most modules used are CORE modules).
any way to back up before it do it or simply just FTP the whole site to my computer including the MYSQL DBs?
Thanks for the help
Ben

I am currently running Drupal 7.0 and am looking to upgrade to the latest version: 7.15.

I just updated lots of my modules (which updated fine), and am now trying to update Drupal 7x to 7.15.

I get 3 seperate errors for the update.php page, the admin pages and the front end of the site.

1. The update.php site says:
Requirements problem
Unresolved dependency _missing_dependency (Missing)
System dependency test requires this module.

2. The admin pages say:
Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in [mysite]/modules/system/system.module on line 2523

3. The front end of the site says*:
* (neither of the tables it is looking for exist in my database - languages/locales_source)

Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception.
Original

PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table '[mydatabase].languages' doesn't exist: SELECT * FROM {languages} ORDER BY weight ASC, name ASC; Array ( ) in language_list() (line 2651 of [mysite]/includes/bootstrap.inc).
Additional