Updating From 2.7.1 – Auto Update..>.>?

Okayyy, so I’m using Freehostia for my hosting service and of course, www.ads-software.com as my open source program. Well, I’ve one problem. I REALLY want to update to 2.8 because I bought some premium style templates. & It keeps saying they’re not installed properly…-_-” but that’s another post. Anyways, my questions are:

1. My auto-update doesn’t seem to be working even though there’s a stable public version of 2.8 everyone knows about except my wordpress. How do I install/update it otherwise?

Here’s a combined screencapture of 2 pics I took saying I use WP 2.7.1 & the other saying there are no other updates…-_-”

<img src=”https://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt109/finalanimestop/updateproblem.jpg&#8221; border=”0″ alt=”update problem”>