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Well, that apparently worked, but the process was pretty funny. I added the upgrade.php phrase and wordpress came up with a message that “No upgrade required. Your wordpress database is already up to date.” I started to sigh, but then tried the next box which said “Continue”. I continued and everything was suddenly working fine. Tried it in several browsers and all seems to work. Guess WP just wanted to be asked!

Anyhow, many thanks.

No, I haven’t tried the host yet. The whole event was just bizarre. It seemed to start with my downloading a plugin that could save everything for me. (VM matrix) and then files scattered all over the place and what was supposed to be saved was just a mess of words and symbols. Makes me wonder if that program was carrying a virus.

But I deleted everything except the database which was tucked away on a program in the server’s cpanel, and seemed to be fine. Have now installed 3.4.1 from scratch, but have a couple of problems that may be related. No matter how I approach it I cannot put the new files directly in my root directory. When I try to upload even one individual file from the 3.4.1 program it immediately puts the wordpress folder up on the remote side and puts that file inside of it. I can access the blog (obviously) only by adding /wordpress to my URL and when I try to get in administratively (wp-admin) it says that something in the database must be changed first. (I suppose that could be the original URL). Anyhow, still a mess.

Thanks for your message. The problem was related to this in that the namerservers were pointing to the firm that supplied my domain name and not the actual webhost.