Sorry, I swear those questions weren't there first time. I think he added them.
Yes, I did follow all the upgrades beginning with the gms upgrade, although I had a lot of problems with the gms upgrade in particular. For example, it had multiple php syntax errors in it that I had to fix manually. Missing double quotes, etc....
To the best of my knowledge I performed all of the upgrades, but as I said, I'm not confident that they were completed properly.
That is what leads me to my current question. What is the best way for me to proceed at this point?