Well I have sat in my chair and at my desk for about 4-5 hours and still can't figure the best solution to do my upgrade..

I'm not running complex zencart..

Just have

Paypal
Canada post

Lightbox gallery
SEO URL
Google analytics
google base feeder
sitempa xml

Well i'm doing what the upgrade instructions tell me to..

But wow they are not fun.. I have upgrade other programs ie, joomla, phpbb3.. and other and i say this is not much fun..

well back to figure out what I messed up.. on my test box..

I"m just very confused on this zen_new, store_new, zen_backup, zen_orig

AHH TO many dir to work with and do this and that..

Is there any simpler instructions

What I did so far was

1. Used winmerge to update my english files and define files
2. Made a new test139 on server with new DB
3. copied OLD 1.3.8 site to that test139 folder
4. then uploaded all the new files and delete all the bad files
5. did the upgrade
6. OPPS forgot to remove the payment and shipping mods (AHHH)
7. I go to my test139 site and my template doesn't work..

and get this error msg.. http://www.horsenpetoutlet.com/test139/

any help.. after this I have 3 more clients to get this working for..