Connection Problem?!?

[Kim]

The DATABASE only contains your data, the information about your products, orders and settings you made by using the Admin.

The FILES contain the code that actually controls the way the program runs and the way it looks.

The 2 pieces work together to build a dynamic, interactive shopping cart.

When doing an upgrade you have to upgrade both pieces to keep them in synch with each other.

[ungeziefer]

The DATABASE only contains your data, the information about your products, orders and settings you made by using the Admin.

I don't mean to be flippant, but isn't that EVERYTHING?

I just tried to do a re-import of my old database into my new one, and my entire store -- EVERYTHING -- is gone. (Hopefully I will be able to restore it somehow ... I'm giving up on salvaging my old database -- I'm just going to start over [again] with a brand new one.)

I am too angry to be writing now. I am going to stop.