Upgrading Drupal

I'm upgrading a site from Drupal 5.2 to 5.7. I've uploaded all the files. However, the status log page is still showing we're running 5.2 - and that means I can't upgrade the database either since it thinks I'm running 5.2 instead of 5.7.

I've tried removing and re-uploading all the Drupal files multiple times, but that doesn't solve it. I could've sworn there was a topic on this before, but after more than 30 minutes of searching and then going through 15 pages of topics, I might be wrong.

Any thoughts?

TIA!

I've been working with drupal since version 5.0 in french without problem, and I'm trying to start a new site with drupal 6.2 ... But everytime I tried to activate de french language, drupal is always giving error when importing the french language files...

Like: An HTTP error 406 occurred. /index.php?id=&op=do

Maybe I'm doing something wrong.... I've installed drupal, then activate de multilanguage features... and uploaded the french files... Drupal detect them, but can't import because of the errors when importing them...

Any clue please?

I have a working install of 5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10 but the developer has asked that I upgrade to 6.2 for his purposes. I am using VMware to host the 2 servers (Ubuntu 7.1 and Ubuntu 8.04) and would like an easy way to move the site, DB, and modules for this multisite server.

The current sites are www.si-forest.com and www.sfegolf.com

Mucho problemos

Drupal reports indicates that there are new version fo the modules I am using available. I haven't updated any module so far. How do I go about it? My guess is the following, please let me know if this is right before I do anything silly.

1.) Download the new version of the module
2.) ftp to the server and over write the old module

I am not sure whether I am supposed to disable the old module first on the admin side. Please advise.
Is the content in the database effected with the updates?

Thanks in advance.

I had posted a previous topic (http://drupal.org/node/221416) asking about upgrading a site from 4.6 to 6. While I was able to get most of this resolved, I have run into another issue. When the site was originally built (not while I was around and before I knew about the various character sets), latin1 encoding had been used on the various modules for the site.