Help Lost data during upgrade

[David J. Bakeman]

My wife's been using redhat 6.2 for years and we've been using gnucash 
either 1.4.x or 1.6.x not sure because when I recently upgraded her 
computer to fedora core 1 I kept all the data but removed the system 
stuff including gnucash.  (I think it's the one that came with rh6.2 but 
I've been unable to figure out what version that was).

So I opened the old account with the version of gnucash that comes with 
fc1 (1.8.8) ran through the setup stuff to say which were stocks which 
were funds etc.  Everything seemed to go fine except for the fact that 
all of the information about number of shares seems to have been lost!

So I've been trying to rebuild an older version of gnucash without 
success (things like no db 1.85 support etc. keep getting in the way).  
I guess I'll have to reinstall rh6.2 somewhere so we can see our data again.

Is there any other way for me to get the data back?  Would it be 
possible to export it from the old version and read it into the new?


HELP!