After struggling with trying to figure how to get my gallery updated from 1.4 to 1.5 I made the decision to move the domain off of hostgator since I've been having other issues with the host anyway.
Going back over the notes and suggestions here I've figured out this much:
1. I still have not been able to get the gallery itself to load in a browser.
2. I did figure out how to export/import large db files in phpmyadmin.
3. The gallery would not load in the WAMP server. I'm attaching a photo of what the browser looks like when trying to load the gallery. (I'm not convinced this is a good troubleshooting step since it's introducing a whole other level of complexity working with the db in a different environment.)
At this point I moved my domain to a different hosting company.
1. I loaded the coppermine directory and the database exactly as it was on hostgator. I was still not able to load the gallery. I had the same error messages as before, as if it couldn't connect to the database even though I knew all the login information was correct.
2. I tried uploading the 1.5 files and ran the update.php script. It ran!! But after it ran I still cannot view the gallery. Here is the error message I'm getting now:
Notice: Undefined offset: 8192 in /mounted-storage/home81b/sub001/sc44840-OTZJ/glassresearch.net/coppermine/include/debugger.inc.php on line 112
It seems like I'm back to square one? I still can't access the gallery. If it's a problem with the hosting I still haven't been given any advice on what to ask the hosting company about. I don't know what the hosting might have to do with the issue.
I can't find any information on the forum about what someone can do if their files or database are corrupted. Not that I know for sure corruption is the issue. Isn't there instructions somewhere about making a clean install of the most current version of coppermine and then importing the tables with user data into them? If it is corruption how is that fixed?
Here is a link to the gallery:
http://www.glassresearch.net/coppermine/Thank you!