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Hi all - I am finally ready to update to 2.1.6.  It has been al long week.  First, Let me THANK everyone who offered advice and answered my questions on getting my DRUPAL test site upgraded to version 2..........you were a big help!  Now my test site is ready for the upgrade to 2.1.x and is running 2.0.6.

The background.  I upgraded my live DRUPAL site to DRUPAL 6 without realizing that it could not run any version less than 2.1.  So when I completed the DRUPAL upgrade, I couldn't update CiviCRM to the new versions because CiviCRM 2.0.x would not run under DRUPAL 6 and I needed to do the necessary updates to get my CivicRM installation from 1.9.x to version 2.  The solution was to create a test DRUPAL site running DRUPAL 5 and use it to update my data to version 2.  This has now been completed.  I  am asking the following questions before the upgrade because I don't want to spend hours taking the site back to DRUPAL 5 and CiviCRM 2.0.6 because I forgot something or wasn't aware of something.........the unforeseen!!!!

Now my thought is to

First, update the test site to version 2.1.6. To  do this, the test site needs to run DRUPAL 6.  So my thought is to do BOTH upgrades at the SAME TIME.  Delete the DRUPAL 5 codebase and delete the CiviCRM 2.0.x codebase and run the upgrade routines for DRUPAL 5 to 6 and then run the upgrade routine for CiviCRM 2.0 to 2.1 .  If this is successful, export the data out of the test site.
Question: Is this the method I should use or is there something I am missing?

Second - if the above is correct and successful, I will then go to the live site and do a straight install of CiviCRM 2.1.  Then empty the database and import the data from the test site.
Question: Is this the logical way to do this?

Once again - thanks to all who help get me to this point.

Shadow

Thanks once again, lobo.  I now hope that I don't get any errors - would like to finsh this project and get on with another one - One week on this project is enough!