I have no idea what happened. I upgraded from 6.19 to 6.22, no problem. Then I went straight into upgrading to 7.1 - never took the site out of maintenance mode, never re-enabled any modules, kept the theme as Garland.
It seemed like it worked at first, no error messages, and then I clicked through to my admin pages. I got some error about undefined property in Garland for block, and none of the menu links would work. I couldn't get into any admin pages at all, couldn't get out of maintenance mode, nothing. I looked in the forums; nothing useful, or at least nothing I understood to be the same problem as I was having.
So I thought maybe something had gone funky with my database, or my settings. I tried to compare settings.php to my backup... and realized my server had not backed up that file. It had only backed up one of the several items I had intended to back up (note to self: always check that backup includes ALL files). No worries. I know how settings.php works. It seemed fine - right password, all that. I tried restoring the backup of my database.
And now I'm getting... a page of gibberish. I have no idea what this means. My site: http://www.mouthybitch.com
I tried deleting everything and re-installing, but the installer tells me I already have Drupal installed. Can anyone tell me what happened and how I can fix it?