Upgrading Drupal

I finally started using Drupal and because I could not stand to see the big red sign that said "a new upgrade is available. Please upgrade" after my install, I upgraded to D7.

Now, all of the cool modules I want to import will not match my version of Drupal. I'm downgrading to D6 until further notice.

I'm trying to figure out if it is really worth upgrading to Drupal 6.x from Druapl 5.

I have all modules available for Drupal 6 so I can upgrade it. But the thing is, it's not going to be any faster, in fact, evidence shows that Drupal 6 is twice as slower as Drupal 5 (according to this optimization site; google and you'll find it, it even says Druapl 7-dev is much slower as well).

I may be having the same trouble as this http://drupal.org/node/350565

My web sites have become "read-only." Doing ANYTHING at them which should push some info in the database gives only a page refresh, with no feedback.

I upgraded from various versions of 5 to 5.14, things seemed fine, I dumped all the databases as a backup (numerous times along the process).

Some of the sites I updated to 6.8 and ran in a multisite configuration. Those sites seemed to work fine and the upgrades in Drupal 6 were nice. I try to run as lean sites as possible without any additional modules: KISS.

I had two sites with some modules that have not yet been updated for Drupal 6, so I decided to to a multisite config for them. These two Drupal 5 sites never recovered. I feel certain the databases are not corrupt since I can load them in MAMP and they seem fine. But when everything is set up at my host GoDaddy.com, the sites have become "read-only." I can access the sites, read the content, but when I try to log in, the login page merely refreshes.

So after this pain (and days of trying various things to work), I decided to put one of them in to Drupal 6.8.

At first everything seemed fine. I could log in, and change any settings, all my other Drupal 6.8 sites seemed fine too. I logged out of all but one Drupal 6.8 site and went to bed in the wee hours.

I am trying to point my site www.informationknot.com which is using Drupal 6.8 to a database filled with content instead of the blank database it is currently using. I'm not sure how to configure the settings.php file or if this is the correct way to do it.

Also, I have a database with content from Wordpress. Can I point to this too? Maybe using two databases on one site may not be the best idea?

I'm not sure this is the right place to post this so I apologize if it's not. Like many other folks, I'm new to Drupal. I have my site hosted through a service and Drupal just happens to be an option. In an effort to learn it, I've had it loaded for my site. Needless to say it's slow going but it's going so that's a good thing. I just received the following when I was in the site admin working.

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Drupal 6.6
Recommended version: 6.8 (2008-Dec-11)
* Download
* Release notes

this shows as a warning on every page...

warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/qbnflaco/upgrade.qbnflaco.com/includes/menu.inc on line 258.

Just wondering if anyone has had this issue.. Here are the modules I have installed...

Drupal core

Drupal 6.8
Includes: Block, Blog, Blog API, Color, Comment, Database logging, Filter, Help, Menu, Node, PHP filter, Path, Syslog, System, Taxonomy, Update status, User

Modules

Administration menu 6.x-1.1
Includes: Administration Menu

Audio 6.x-1.0-unstable3
Includes: Audio, Audio Import

Backup Files 6.x-1.1
Includes: Backup Files

Backup and Migrate 6.x-1.0
Includes: Backup and Migrate

Content Construction Kit (CCK) 6.x-2.1
Includes: Content, Content Copy, Fieldgroup, Node Reference, Number, Option Widgets, Text, User Reference
Up to date

DB Maintenance 6.x-2.0-beta1
Includes: DB Maintenance

Embedded Media Field 6.x-1.0-alpha6
Includes: Embedded Media Field, Embedded Media Import, Embedded Media Thumbnail, Embedded Video Field

Google Analytics 6.x-2.0
Includes: Google Analytics

Image 6.x-1.0-alpha3
Includes: Image, Image Attach, Image Gallery, Image Import

Image Publishing 6.x-1.0-beta1
Includes: Image Publishing

Image Assist 6.x-1.0
Includes: Image assist

Pathauto 6.x-1.1
Includes: Pathauto

Tagadelic 6.x-1.0
Includes: Tagadelic