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For some reason, it seems very hard to upgrade from Joomla 1.6.3 to 1.7.x. 

Here is what I did:

• Found a link to use to upgrade to Joomla 1.6.6 - http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=6007
  This was a very hard link to find!
• From there I was able to update to 1.7 using the manual process here (hard work!) http://docs.joomla.org/Upgrading_1.6.5_to_1.7
• I still had problems upgrading to 1.7.3 from 1.7.0 through the automated update system, and had strange admin errors once I upgraded manually. To fix this, I then downloaded a copy of the full 1.7.3 package and extracted its files over my installation, removed the installation directory and then all worked well.