8.10 upgrade failed

[ArrrghJ]

I tried to upgrade to 8.10 and everything went perfectly fine.
until I got to "Clean up"
it stopped at "searching for outdated software."
it just froze, and wouldn't come back.
I had to reboot.
then I checked to see if it worked anyway.
according to "lsb_release -a" I'm running 8.10, but I'm not using the 27 kernel. I still have 2.6.24-21-generic.
and I also don't have any of the new features.
is there any way to fix this without destroying my files?

"lsb_release -a" outputs:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid

[ArrrghJ]

It's okay now.
I went into Synaptic then clicked mark all upgrades and hit apply.
it had to download 1268 new packages that I'm guessing never came in my upgrade.
I still have all my files, so nothing went wrong.
except my touchpad scroll, but that's not too important.