[adwade]

Well, this just gets stranger and stranger...

To install the newer v4.73 of FlashChat I followed their docs and they recommended renaming the current CHAT directory to something else, then installing the new version into a CHAT directory. That way if something went wrong, it would be easy to swap back over to the one you knew ran.

As such, I had renamed my original install to chat_v462 and then uploaded the CHAT directory just as directed. On my first install, everything when just perfectly.

Then admist all this, I re-uploaded the install.php file and install_files directory (since I had deleted them upon completion) and re-ran the install. Everything worked just like it did the first time, and I can get into FlashChat again...but it's version 4.62, not v4.73?! WHERE did that come from? No idea, so I deleted everything and reinstalled again. v4.62 installed and works alright, once again. I deleted everything this time, my old v4.62 directory, my new CHAT directory, everything. Tried again, and low & behold v4.62 is what's installed.

I'm using SmartFTP and thought I just didn't understand how it worked, so looked in the options and made sure it was set to overwrite ANYthing that existed. Deleted everything once again, and then re-uploaded the CHAT folder to the server, ran the install, worked fine, and yet I ended up with v4.62 yet again!? Arrrgggghhh! I'm SURE I'm uploading the v4.73 files, so somehow I must have some old files remaining on the server. How do you surely get rid of any existing files on a server in a case like this??