Can some one help me - even willing to pay

[razorripper]

I crashed my friends board .... Went to do upgrade from 3.6.8 to 3.8.6 and server acted up, now I can not fix it... I ended up reloading all the 3.6.8 files I downloaded from VB.com...

So i am in deep $%$#.

THIS IS AN EXACT LIST OF WHAT I DID AND DID NOT DO IN AN ATTEMPT TO UPGRADE IT, THEN REDO BACKUP:

Made backup:
vb_forumbackup-12-06-2010-2a9d7.sql

Then uploaded files from:
vbulletin_3-8-6_Patch_Level_1_VBF04D9912.zip
To:
www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum

Did not touch files in:
www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com ONLY touched these "www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum"

Followed all directions, but did not over write these folders because we need contents in them that have our banners, smilies and programs:
www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/images/banners
www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/images/smilies
www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/includes/xml

Did not touch these folders:
www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/arcade
www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/chat
www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/dbtech
www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/ps3
www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/sr_classifieds

Reconfiged the www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/includes/config.php to have all proper info on it, then ran the:
www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/install/upgrade.php

Nothing worked after that.

Then reloaded all the 3.6.8 files, once again not touching all the folders and files above. Files uploaded are from:
vbulletin_3-6-8_Patch_Level_2_VBF04D9912.zip

From here I did not do anything as i know i needed help.


Please let me know what i need to do, or if someone can get in and fix it at a reasonable cost - please ... PLEASE let me know.

If this is the wrong place to post i apologize - please tell me where i should post this to get better answers.


thankyou!