Adautocfg updating wrong oracle home

We are doing a database upgrade from 8.1.7 to 9.2.0.6 per note 216550.1. The database upgrade is complete and we are now on step 21 - run autoconfig. We copied the appsutil directory from 8.1.7 home to 9.2 home and edited the xml file changing oradb (8.1.7) to ora92. I then edited adautocfg.cmd replacing oradb with ora92. Ran adautocfg.cmd and it failed after asking for a password - said I gave to many!! However, looks like it worked since it did create a new listener, tnsnames, etc. files.
Then I heard from users that another 8.1.7 database on this box was inaccessible. I rebooted server and the 8.1.7 listener would not
start!!! I looked at the registry and found that adautoconfig had changed the 817 registry information. I manually edited the entries and now okay.
Under oracle subkey:
all_homes: id0/home0 - is 8.1.7 - it now pointed to ora92 - I changed back to oradb (817)
id1/home1 - ias - okay
id2/home2 - n806 - okay
id3/home3 - 902 - okay
I edited the registry changing id0/home0 back to 8.1.7 and then could restart
the 8.1.7 listener and database. Ran adautocfg again and it changed the
id0/home0 entries. SHould be doing id3/home3.
Help
I even did a "set oracle_home=f:\oracle\ora92" before running adautocfg and it still updated the wrong database registry information.
What do I have to do to make it update the right home?????

I would suggest that it something in your setup as this does not normally happen. At least I haven't seen this in ages. Probably a different umask of the oracle user?
cu
Andreas

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