Quote Originally Posted by royaldave View Post
I tried that already - and have just tried again to be sure. Makes no difference.
What about the capitlization used on the database name? I thought I "recently" saw something about the naming convention of DBs, but can not recall if there was a problem with using caps in the name. So one asks, but it works in the store. This doesn't mean that the upgrade process respects it.

The other thought is what other changes have been made to the live store as compared to a vanilla install?

Lastly a "quick fix" to do the upgrade blind to the reason would be to setup a new set of files with the database information pointing to that of the live site and then do the update on that "site"...