[support] How to Fix a Messed Up Site

[Fred Jones]

I am given now a D5 site with eCommerce and Ubercart both installed
but deactivated. The original developer still has a dev version
somewhere where Ubercart is activated and appears to be working. The
owners now want me to provide them with ecommerce capability. I have
read that eCommerce and Ubercart are not compatible. The site owners
furthermore want to upgrade to D6 and also the latest version of
CiviCRM (which anyway requires D6).

But when I explained that it may be necessary to rebuild the site in
D6 and then export/import the data (nodes and users) and that will
take a day or two of work, they have asked if there is any other way
to provide ecommerce functionality more simply. Aside from having paid
once for this site to an incompetent developer, they happen to be on a
very limited budget (they are an NPO).

So, any other suggestions?

I could just turn on Ubercart and hope it works I suppose. Heh heh.
I'm not too thrilled about that however.

Thanks.