Firstly, hello.

I installed drupal and it is running. I did the upgrade and somehow the site was protected (no deleted files) and manually updated.

I'd like to know if I will need to do this again, eg upload files or is there a web interface ie "browse" to a .zip file instead.

Administrative menus were disabled and I had to use update.php to get back and now half the text is times roman and half arial.

Is this to be expected or was the fault at your end?

Cheers