When installing the 154 version, did you include the ZC default product as part of the installation?
-----Yes

Prior to importing/uploading the old database to populate the store with *YOUR* product, did you drop the tables of the above default product?
-----Did I need to drop tables. Was I missing this step? I thought I was too just create a new database, import my 1.39h data into the new and then do a zcinstall upgrade?

When you "logged into the admin" where in this process of uploading/importing was it possible with this setup?
---------Not sure, it seems that the data is still stuck to the default shop. Is this cause I did not drop tables at some point?

thank you for your help.