I need some help upgrading some websites from Drupal 4 to 6--I've been locked out, as the password is no longer recognised. This is a recognised problem. See http://drupal.org/node/105114 and my comments in there.

I would preferably like to be f-to-f with someone who can meet with me, or at least describe what is going on over the phone and fix it...

I am hosted on a webservice that has fantastico (great for people like me), but I have also arranged shell access.

If you are interested, please email me at larryjhs@fastmail.fm with your rate...

I posted this in March, but no solutions so far...

have noticed a whole thread of posts on this, but none seem to help : http://drupal.org/node/105114

It may well be a the server end, they have had a look, but they don't support 3rd party software :(

The server is running Apache version 1.3.41 (Unix) PHP version 5.2.5
MySQL version 4.1.22-standard

I try to log in

mysite.com/user/

it won't accept my p/w do I ask for a new temp p/w, which I log in with, and put in a new p/w. But then it doesn't accept that and I am locked out.

the posts mentioned commenting out

Solution: In user.module, comment out
sess_regenerate();
return 'user/'. $user->uid;

so that it looks like

//sess_regenerate();
//return 'user/'. $user->uid;

but this code is not in my version of user.module.

Another post, way down the list suggested to delete php.ini. I don't believe I have a php.ini file to delete (where would it be??) as the last person on this commented.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to get in. Obviously the next step is to upgrade to 6.1, but I can't do that properly (uninstalling extra modules etc), until I can get in.

I am rather desparate, as I need to update content!!