Here’s the deal, I was at version 2,7,0 and wanted to upgrade to 2,7,1 but the auto update within WordPress kept failing to connect, and once I finally logged in to Network Solutions account manager, and sorted through their pile of unorganized crap to find their upgrade option, there was no active link to upgrade because apparently they don’t support incremental upgrades.
Here’s what worked:
I reset the file permission in the FTP manager and then WordPress was able to upgrade automatically from within the site’s account settings (not Network Solutions settings). Lame.