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I’m withdrawing my question. The plugin does not work for me, and it doesn’t appear that anyone is monitoring this forum. Thanks anyway.

Thank you so much, @senff. This did what I needed. Some day I’ll have to try to learn CSS.

I solved this for the checkboxes. Can’t figure out the dropdown, so I just won’t use that. This CSS is what I used:

.wpcf7-form input[type=checkbox] {
  border-color: #f50000;
  border-style: solid;
}

Oops! Wrong URL: Here is the page I need help with:
https://www.senecacontracting.com/get-a-quote-2/

Thanks, auludag. I was hoping to make it possible for readers to read the entire post on the main page, with a link to the post page if they want to reply.

My problem is fixed, but I can’t really mark this thread “Resolved,” because I don’t know how it was fixed. I spent a couple of hours poring over the WP documentation, and I tried various ways of migrating my database from MySQL 4 to a new MySQL 5 database — through phpMyAdmin and through SSH, but kept getting errors, mostly server timeouts. My blog is nine years old and contains several hundred posts and lots of comments, but it’s not really so big that the server should have choked on it. I also tried going back to the old database, backing it up AGAIN, and trying to import the newer backup, but that didn’t work either.

Finally I called my host (1and1 Internet). Of course they had to make me prove that I had done all the preliminary steps (plug in my computer, edit wp-config, back up old, import into new, etc.), but eventually they were convinced that there was something wrong that I couldn’t fix on my end, so they manually moved the database themselves, which took about five minutes and fixed everything.

I wish I knew how to do that, but I don’t, so… issue repaired, question not really resolved in my mind.

Thanks for your suggestion, Josh!

Thanks, Josh! I just went back and re-edited “wp-config,” getting the information from the web host control panel. I think it was correct, but I copied and pasted the info in anyway, and there has been no change in my situation: I have a new, blank installation of WordPress, with only a sample page. But I seem to have all the plugins from my old installation, if that is a clue.

When I restored my new database from the backup of my old database, I had to try several times, as I kept getting the error “…the server went away.” Eventually it seemed to work, but I don’t know how to read the messages from phpMyAdmin or MySQL.

I can’t seem to use the backup I made from within WP, because the Import plugin is looking for a WXR file (I think), and all I have is a .sql file.

Any ideas?

Correction — My first sentence should say “I’m unable to upgrade to WP 2.9.