Upgrade oddity

I just recently (as in a hour or so ago) upgraded one of my clients Zen Cart site. The oddness is that I followed the instructions, at least I think I did, but now I have two different versions.

I was on version 1.3.9h; I copied the database and website, pointed everything as i should and tested it before go time. it was a perfect duplicate.

I then ran the updater, I clicked 'upgrade database' since i have products in my database and now when i log into the admin I'm told I need to upgrade. When I check the version it says I'm running ZenCart Version 1.3.9h and Database version 1.5.0

Where did I go wrong?

I don't see any mention of uploading the 1.5 files? And if you "copied" the database and website, where did you copy them to to do your testing?

My apologies, yes; I first made a copy of my 1.3 site in a sub directory. /demo for example. I changed the http server info to /domain.com/demo which got the site working along with the admin area.

i then uploaded on top of that they 1.5 files. Ran the install, did the database upgrade; and then that was my result

If you uploaded the 1.5 files to the 'demo' dir. but not the Live site area, that would explain the problem.

Also, you now have two Zen Cart's using the same database so you should create another database, change the 'demo' to use that one and password protect the 'demo' dir. so no one else can access it. In future, you can use the 'demo' dir. for testing so as not to affect the Live site.

Not sure what instructions you followed, but it doesn't sound like these, or you've skipped some of the steps:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=108

I am using a different database, i made a database and called it upgrade. i then copied my current database over to the new.

Whatever the case I'm finding it easier to just start from scratch.

maybe you have two admin folders after your up date. the update uses admin while your old admin directory may of been zc_admin. if this is what you have on the go then you old unmodified zc_admin folder would still point you towards your unmodified data base.
good luck