Well, it looks like the database was corrupted along with the blog upon the update attempt. Thanks for the help, but I have someone helping me that knows a bit more about this than I do, so this thread can be closed I suppose.
I will have to put the blog back together manually. bummer….
Upon reading more about this particular update situation, it seems that a bug got into the update process that deletes files. I won’t be counting on an outside backup system anymore!
Now onto learning more about programming and in particular WordPress!
Cheers! Tamra
