Upgrading Drupal

I have a test site on an XAMPP server running on a laptop. This is a development environment. I updated from Drupal 6.2 to 6.8 and everything went fine except a few "Story" and "Page" elements now no longer have "Block Name." RESULT: If this content is edited, it can't be saved due to the lack of a mandatory component. When in "edit" mode, the Block Name appears as an empty box with a spinbar.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

I've been watching the Mastering Drupal with Greg Knaddison video for upgrading my Drupal 5.x installation to 6.x
I just uploaded all the 6.x files and modules.
I went back to the site and got redirected to install.php
Now I can't get past the Database Configuration page.
I keep entering in the database name, username and password, but the page keeps refreshing asking for the same info.
Does anybody have any ideas?
Thanks in advance for the assistance. I look forward to having a look at Drupal 6.
Cway

Hi...
We have a test site that was running Drupal 6.2; then we received notice that our database host url had changed. When I went in to update the settings files to point to this new database URL, the site wanted me to install drupal.

So I did, And I got a slew of errors. Most of them I have been able to find the answers to manually on this site (the missing columns in the cahce and url_alias tables, for example). Then there was one problem left that I couldn't find an answer for:

Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 7 of 8 bytes in /var/www/test/drupal6/drupal-6.2/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 458

The code on line 458 of bootstrap.inc reads as follows:

$variables[$variable->name] = unserialize($variable->value);

I'm not sure if you'll need the lines around that or not.

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Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent in /home/canadia/public_html/drupal/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 1019