Cannot restore database after upgrade

after reporting this proglem:
http://help.octopusdeploy.com/discussions/problems/17448-octopus-deploys-shows-an-upgrade-available-even-after-that-upgrade-has-been-installed

We uninstalled as prompted during installation of the newer version, in the manager console we choose the ‘Delete the Octopus instance’ and re-installed. The newer version 2.3.3 is now correctly displayed however we cannot restore the database. This is a fairly big disaster for us as its taken weeks to get the deployments correct, not to mention the history of all the releases.

Any ideas what we can try next?

panic over - all sorted.