First things first: i changed servers/hosts and brought Coppermine and the rest of my website along for the ride. I uploaded everything and since I needed to upgrade Coppermine anyway, I got the latest version, saved all the requisite files and uploaded the new stuff.
Now, I also used myPHP to backup the old stuff from my previous host. I then backed it up onto the new mySQL with myPHP. I think that went okay, though it's hard to tell.
When I ran my install the first time, it told me it was locked. I thought maybe I should select install over upgrade since it was a new server. So I then ran upgrade and got some errors. I deleted all the files from the server except Albums and the two other PHP files needed and uploaded the files again. This time I ran upgrade and everything went fine.
But when I got into the gallery
http://www.neckofwoods.com/coppermine no images are showing up. Now they do exist in my albums folder but they are not showing up in the actual Coppermine gallery. I ran a diagnostic that showed some files out of whack. I think I was running 1.3x (not sure exactly). Now I've got a good install of 1.4.10. It found a few .html files in the albums folder that needed to be replaced with .php files. I checked to see if there was any data in those index.html files that would need to be transferred. I could not see any. So I put those new files up there. BTW I didn't see mention of this situation in the upgrade guide for my 1.3 to 1.4 move. It appears you need to move an index.php into the albums folder to replace the index.html
I wonder if the backup of my database included data or excluded data that caused trouble. I read here what to get and got that but I am on a new server. I don't know if that would matter. It didn't when moving WordPress.
I think the issue involves that mySQL but I don't know where to begin. The database was updated after I did the upgrade, so I don't think I can restore my old database without causing problems. I'm not sure what to do at this point. Oh, strangely, all my settings from the previous install -- in the admin panel -- are all intact. But it doesn't seem to know there are images/albums anywhere. Help