Pligg noob/I need help reinstalling pligg

[prme]

Hello all please don;t flame me but i have a site http://themaddness.com/news that was set up with a pligg ver i think pre 9.5 it not before that but the person that set this up no longer wants to help meand I really don't know what to do I would like to update and keep all teh users and submissions

Thanks for all your help in advance

[chuckroast]

Please be sure to make a backup of your MySQL databases
and files before upgrading to the newest version of Pligg.
Some upgrades might require that you upgrade your MySQL
database, so please keep backups available.

Note: Upgrading is supported for versions beta 8 and newer

1. Make a backup copy of your config.php and settings.php
(or config2.php for older versions) file.

2. Upload the new build over current build. Make sure all directories
have the same chmod as mentioned in the installation instructions above.

3. If upgrading from beta 8 or below, Rename config2.php to settings.php.

4. Set permissions on config.php to 655.

5. Set permissions on settings.php and /avatar/user_uploaded to 777.

6. Run /install/upgrade.php.

7. Delete everything inside your templates_c directory.

8. Delete the /install directory

9. Login to pligg, go into the admin panel, and set pligg to your liking.

[prme]

how can i tell what version it is?

[chuckroast]

open the README.txt file.. Each version of pligg comes with it and will tell you what version you are using.

[prme]

Sigh when i log into my FTP i see a folder names "DOLPHIN" I'm assuming that the plig folder I'm a pligg retard sigh should i just give up?!?!?!!?

[prme]

ok this was the error i got after I did this:



1. Be sure to make a backup of your MySQL databases before upgrading to the newest version of Pligg. Some upgrades might require that you upgrade your MySQL database, so please keep backups available.

2. Make a backup copy of your entire site, especially:

* config.php
* settings.php (or config2.php for older versions)
* libs/lang.conf


3. Upload the new files over the current files. Make sure the above mentioned directories and files are writable to the web server.

4. Open www.yoursite.com/install/upgrade.php in your browser.


now i'm not doing it in the same directory that the site is in i made a copy and put it in a new directory... I wanted to est my changes before i made it perminate



This will upgrade the database for Pligg Beta v9.0 and above to the latest version.

Note: this is just a database upgrade, you still need to upload the new files.
Upgrading Tables...
ERROR! The table table_links is missing! Are you sure you should be doing an upgrade?ERROR! The table table_links is missing! Are you sure you should be doing an upgrade?ERROR! The table table_links is missing! Are you sure you should be doing an upgrade?ERROR! The table table_users is missing! Are you sure you should be doing an upgrade?ERROR! The table table_comments is missing! Are you sure you should be doing an upgrade?ERROR! The table table_categories is missing! Are you sure you should be doing an upgrade?ERROR! The table table_users is missing! Are you sure you should be doing an upgrade?ERROR! The table table_users is missing! Are you sure you should be doing an upgrade?

[prme]

I got this ERROR when I go to: http://themaddness.com/news/

Warning: file_get_contents(.//languages/lang_pligg_language.conf): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/t/h/e/themaddness1/html/news/class.config.php on line 49
Could not open .//languages/lang_pligg_language.conf