Upgrading Drupal

Hi, I'm now in the prosess of trying to move the forum content from a Drupal 4.7 installation to a 6.12 installation.
I first tried to do an upgrade but ran into problems...., so I decided to try a new installation.

So my question is; is it possible to import the forum content from the old site to the new installation in a fairly straight forward manner? (I will recreate the other stuff, I only need the forum).

I did try to have a look with PHPMyAdmin, but I'm fairly new to that tool so I'm not quite sure what I am doing....

I have information in the recent logs entry and my statistics work but 'recent hits', 'top visitors' and 'top pages' reports are empty? Logs are enabled. Any ideas?

I just backed up my site locally and the images are missing. Alt text it there, zero errors after upgrading to 6.12 (from 6.8), but no images. They are in their correct folders, but not appearing in the site. Even if I add an image to a node with the fck editor it will not appear. I think it might have something to do with the TMP file but I'm not sure.

After being away for a bit, I logged in as admin to find there were updates.
I updated using the 6.12 files - now I get the following message

array_pop() [function.array-pop]: The argument should be an array in /hermes/bosweb/web214/b2142/ipw.lakeviewca/public_html/cms/update.php on line 314.

I have cleared cache and internet temp files

no longer can 'enter' modules - I get the http 500 internal server error

Can anyone help??

Hello,

I have about 15 drupal sites, when I first created the sites I used cPanel to do the drupal installation. I either forgot or just didn't know that you could upgrade releases (ex: 6.11 to 6.12) through Cpanel. I have been manually upgrading releases all along on each site.

As far as I understand, if a drupal core update does not require changes to the DB schema, or a database upgrade, then it's fairly safe to just drop the new files in on top of the old files, and update.php doesn't really need to be run (although the cache might need to be cleared).

If database change ARE required, then update.php needs to be run.

Currently, I can't see any indication withe each new security update of whether update.php needs to be run. Am I missing something? If not, I might put in a feature request...