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One other thing, while I’m at this. The validator got huffy about not declaring open tags (or something like that) because, evidently, I don’t have a
for every <br>. That’s the great bulk of that big errors total.

I noticed a bunch of other errors come right out of what WP puts in and from the JS code, or related HTML, for a couple of add-ins on the page a€?? things I don’t think I can do anything about.

OK, I went to the validator. I ran it on both the main blog page and the comments/single-post version. I had it show source and copied each to a text file. Now, maybe I can spot something missing or out of line.

I’m thinking it has to be that there’s some coding or something at the end of the “Just say it!” execution box that goes below the comment entry form, that’s missing from or incorrect in the main page.

The problem is, the text files generated are really big (sigh). Kind of like looking for a lost dime in the Grand Canyon.

Thanks for the responses. I’m gaining on it. I restored a slew of files in the main WP directory and in wp-admin, which did the trick. Whew.

Here’s the big sticking point now, the thing that I hope some more-experienced WP user here might be able to help me sort out. The page displays just right in the single-post page view that comes up when you click Comments. It’s only screwed up in the multiple-post page that you surf to.

I’ll give the validate thing a try. Just hope it doesn’t trigger any addtional setbacks right now. When I had auto validate set on in the blog, I had problems with it because I’m doing some custom formatting in css using paragraph span style. As I recall, the auto closing tags thing was throwing in extra closing paragraph tags, or something like that. It nearly drove me crazy until I notice I could turn it off.

Related question: I can’t get either Firefox or IE6 to let me View Source on WordPress pages, not on my blog or others I’ve visited. How the heck do you do that? Is there a setting in the blog or the browser I’m missing?

All help gratefully accepted.

Thanks, Pericat, but I can’t get into the admin page since I installed a WP 1.5 test blog in another directory. I can get into the new one just fine, but I get only error messages when I try to get into the old one.

Warning: main(auth.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/wpblog/wp-admin/index.php on line 4

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘auth.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/anderson/public_html/wpblog/wp-admin/index.php on line 4

I used Fantastico to install the new 1.5 and I think it somehow changed the siteurl associated with the existing blog as well as the new one, although I don’t know because I specified a new, different directory.

I should’ve mentioned, the URL is https://wpblog.ohpinion.com/

Thanks to all of you for added insight and information.

Most files uploaded were set for “auto” but, because of something I saw in another message somewhere, I picked up the notion .php files should go as binary, and on the last upgrade attempt, I separately re-sent index.php as binary. Now I know better.

As to the display problems vs. browser trying to download, I did page refreshes in each browser. I also emptied stored pages/files, to make sure that wasn’t causing any conflicts. There were no blank lines in plugins because the only plugins on the site during the update attempts were the ones uploaded among the WordPress 1.5 files. The directions said to clear all files except wp-config.php, so that’s exactly what I did.

RustIndy, I did run upgrade.php in the browser and saw the message saying that if I could see it, I was all set.

As I said in the message, I was able to access the admin pages. Is that different from RUNning wp-admin.php? I don’t recall seeing anything to run there.

Lastly, I have tried repeatedly since last Saturday to connect to tamba2.org.uk, various specific URLs. Every time, I get a page can’t be loaded error page.

Thanks for your reply, Podz. Not immediately, but I will try that.

I have the exact same problem. I’m running Windows XP SP2 with all kinds of additional update patches. I have Download Express installed and use AVG Antivirus. I tried disabling AVG but that didn’t help.

I also tried disabling various Internet Explorer settings that I thought might be getting in the way a€?? things like downloading across domains, certificate validation, etc. None of these measures helped.

All download attempts ended after about two seconds with a “412 server not found,” or something like that, error message.

I rebooted into Redhat 9 and downloaded the 1.5 package using Mozilla without any trouble.

I also use MSN and have the MSN Explorer browser. When I went to the download page using it, I was able to download the 1.5 package in the blink of an eye.

The problem here, it seems clear, is that Microsoft is throwing out all these security updates and patches for XP and IE6, and there’s no telling what side effects they’re going to generate on various systems. It’s kind of like Granny Cratchitt and the 39 different prescription pills, dozen vitamins and several herbal capsules she takes every day. Something goes wrong and then some poor emergency room doc has to try and sort it all out. Good luck.

If you of anyone has found the exact culprit, or if one of the WordPress programming/site wizards can make an adjustment, please post something. I’m quite sure if this is happening to two of us who’re are leaving messages, it’s probably happened to a bunch who haven’t been heard from.