Hi @razoredge,
The version descriptor for your installation states that you’ve got OJS 2.4.7-0, not OJS 2.4.7-1 – if you want to upgrade to OJS 2.4.7-1, you’ll need to update your code first.
The � characters suggest a character set mismatch. If you dumped your database and loaded it into the new server for the upgrade, then make sure that your character set configurations match, both in MySQL, and in the config.inc.php configuration file for OJS. It’s worth putting some time into getting this fixed properly, because if you continue with mixed content it’ll be very hard to unscramble later.
Note that some versions of MySQL need you to specify the character set when dumping the old DB; see the --default-character-set option to mysqldump.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team