Your next upgrade will fail too. There is a fault in Joomla that insists on having the upgrade channel for older versions including 1.7 and that is what is breaking the site upgrade.
The errant files are found in administrator/components/com_admin/sql/updates/mysql/ as previous upgrades may not have deleted the 1.7 files. If there any then delete them BEFORE you run the upgrade.
Hope this helps
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I have actually decided to redo the site. The template is really very unresponsive. Perfect style for an attorney but non-the-less, while it is small, I will redo it.